120 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
wise carry longitudinal black, streaks. Length of head and 
body of type, 2124 inches; oF tail, 10% inches. 
Distribution Moupin, Eastern Tibet. 
X. FONTANIER’S CAT. FELIS TRISTIS. 
Felis tristis, Milne-Edwards, Recherches Mammif. p. 223 
(1868-74); Elliot, Monogr. Felidz, pl. xxii. (1878-83) ; 
Mivart, The Cat, p. 400 (1881). 
This is also a little-known species, distinguished from the 
other Cats of the regions it inhabits by its large size, whitish- 
grey ground-colour, large spots, and rather short tail. It is 
described as having soft and long fur, of a whitish-grey ground- 
colour, upon which three or four blackish-brown lines, com- 
mencing on the head between the ears, run the whole length 
of the back, the remainder of the upper-parts, as well as the 
flanks and limbs, being marked with large dark brown solid 
spots. Chest with two bars of rufous-brown running across it. 
Tail bushy, less than half the length of the head and body ; 
rufous-brown above, and yellowish-brown below ; with a series 
of obscure dark brown bars on the upper surface. Length of 
head and body, 33% inches ; of tail, 16 inches. 
Distribution.— The interior of China; the skin of the type 
specimen having been purchased in Pekin. 
XI. THE GOLDEN, OR BAY CAT. FELIS TEMMINCKI. 
Felis temminckt, Vigors and Horsfield, Zool. Journ. vol. iii. p. 
451 (1828); Elliot, Monogr. Felidz, pl. xvi. (1878-83) ; 
Blanford, Mamm. Brit. India, p. 75 (1888); Hose, 
Mamm. Borneo, p. 19 (1893). 
felis moormensis, Hodgson, Gleanings in Science, vol. iii. p. 
177 (1831). 
Leopardus moormensis, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 41 
(1843). 
