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THE TIBETAN TIGER-CAT. 11g 
Burma to the Malay Peninsula ; N. Borneo*; Baram River, 
Sarawak ; Sumatra ; and perhaps Java. 
Habits.—Nothing definite is known as to the habits of this 
prettily-marked Cat, although, like the last species, it is prob- 
ably arboreal. Mr. Hose says that it frequents the clearings in 
Sarawak, and is more often found in the low country than on 
the mountains. It is very fierce, when caught, and will not 
live long in captivity. 
IX. THE TIBETAN TIGER-CAT. FELIS SCRIPTA. 
Felis: scripta, Milne-Edwards, Nouv. Archiv. Mus. Bull. vol. 
vii. p. 92 (1876); id., Recherches des Mammif. p. 341 ; 
Mivart, The Cat, p. 400 (1881). 
Characters—As suggested by Mr. W. L. Sclater in his 
Catalogue of Mammals in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (part 
ii, p. 221), it is not improbable that this form will prove to be 
identical with the last. Its general colour is described as pale 
g-ey, with reddish-brown spots margined more or less completely 
with black. In the region of the shoulders these markings take 
the form of longitudinal wavy bands, with a distant resemblance 
to Chinese letters. The largest of these dark lines commences 
near the inner corner of the eye, then passes above the ear to 
the withers, after which it widens out as it descends obliquely ; 
and a similar, but more highly-placed band extends from the 
forehead to the shoulder. On the sides of the body are large, 
irregularly-shaped blotches, forming bands and bars at the 
hinder parts, and incomplete rings on the tail; and there are 
likewise black spots and bars on the outer sides of the limbs. 
A portion of the cheeks, as well as the chest, are white, with 
transvers2 black murkings ; and_the yellowish under-parts like- 
* A. H. Everett, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1893, p. 495. 
