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the upper part of the breast are four broken bands of foxy-red; 
belly covered with large brown spots, becoming rufous between 
the hind-legs. Inner sides of hind-legs buff, with cross-bands 
of foxy-red, and covered with small reddish spots to the toes. 
Tail thick, rather short, bushy, darker than the body, with 
several incomplete broken rings of blackish-brown. Inside of 
ear buff, behind black.” In the skull the nasal region is much 
narrowed, the orbit is slightly incomplete behind, and there is 
a small anterior pre-molar. 
The Felts microtis, from Pekin and Mongolia, is identified 
with this form by Mr. Elliot in his ‘‘ Monograph of the Felide,” 
although Professor Mivart regards it as not improbably distinct. 
Having the general coloration of the Chinese variety of the 
Leopard-Cat, it has very small ears, long, soft, and abundant 
fur, with reddish and somewhat confluent spots; the white spot 
behind the ear divided into two moieties by a dark vertical 
streak, and the tail is not distinctly spotted. 
Further evidence as to the unity or distinctness of these 
two forms is required, while the writer is by no means assured 
whether either are more than well-marked races of the 
Leopard-Cat. As in the case of other forms from the same 
region, nothing has been recorded in regard to the habits of 
this Cat. 
XVII. THE RUSTY-SPOTTED CAT. FELIS RUBIGINOSA. 
Lelis rubiginosa, 1. Geoffroy, in Bélanger’s Voyage Indes 
Orient. p. 140 (1834); Elliot, Monogr. Felide, pl. 
xxix. (1878-83); Blanford, Mamm. Brit. India, p. 81 
(1888). 
Viverriceps rubiginosa, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 269; 
id., Cat. Carniv. Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 18 (1869). 
Characters—This pretty little Indian Cat has had its dis- 
tinctive characteristics so fully noticed under the head of 
