180 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
Length of head and Pog” 18 to 22 inches ; of tail, g to 10 | 
inches. ‘The species may be compared in size to an ordinary | 
Domestic Cat. | 
The coloration is described by Mr. Blanford as follows :— | 
“Very pale sandy (fulvescent grey or light isabelline), with | 
numerous small black roundish spots on the body, and still | 
smaller elongate spots on the crown and nape, those on > 
the crown having a tendency to form longitudinal bands | 
Fur of back dusky-grey near the base, thence to the end | 
pale rufescent, tip still paler. ‘There are some narrow black | 
cross-lines outside the limbs, and two distinct black bars inside | 
each fore-arm ; also the usual cheek-stripes, which are brown. | 
The lower-parts are pale rufescent, with a few black spots; the 
chin, throat, and front of the breast white and unspotted, the | 
fore-neck rufescent. Ears externally the same colour as the 
back, with a few elongate brown hairs at the end. ‘Tail with | 
some black transverse bands above, which form rings towards | 
the end; the tip being black. Paws black beneath.” | 
This and the four next forms, namely, Shaw’s Cat, the Jun- | 
gle Cat, the Pale Cat, and the Steppe Cat, are all very closely | 
allied, being distinguished by the slight pencil of hairs at the 
summit of each ear. Felis chaus, writes Mr. W. L. Sclater in 
the “Catalogue of Mammals in the Indian Museum, Calcutta,” | 
“can be distinguished at once by its black pencil, and its 
pepper-and-salt colour, with no trace of lines or spots on the 
body.  caudata is very indistinctly spotted, but has a long 
tail, twice the length of that of & chaus. FE. ornataand #. shaw- 
tana seem to resemble each other in every respect, although 
Mr. Blanford distinguishes the latter from the former by its 
shorter tail, its more rufous coloration, and the presence of 
distinct black spots on the tail. With regard to the first dis- | 
tinction, the tails of the two known specimens of /: shawiana | 
are certainly shorter than those of the specimens of & ornata; 
