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dency in these Cats to runes stripes, especially on the limbs.’ 
It was on such a half-breed that the so-called Waved Cat (£ 
torguata) was named. Jerdon observes that at Hissar the 
Desert Cat is almost always found among the low sand-hills, 
although occasionally in bare fields, frequently in company with 
the Desert Fox. 
XXXVI. SHAW’S CAT. FELIS SHAWIANA, 
felis shawiana, Blanford, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xlv. 
Pp. 49 (1876) ; id., Scientific Results 2nd Yarkand Mission 
Mamm, p. 17, pls. 1.0, 1.¢ (1870). 
The distinctive features of this species or variety having 
been already given under the heading of the Desert Cat, it will 
suffice to mention that is is known only from a few skins and 
a skeleton, mostly purchased in the bazaars of Kashgar and 
Yarkand. 
Distribution. 
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Eastern Turkestan (Yarkand and Kashgar), 
XXXVII. THE JUNGLE CAT. FELIS CHAUS. 
felis chaus, Guldenstadt, Nov. Comm. Ac. Petrop, vol. xx. p. 
483 (1776); Elliot, Monograph of Felidae, pl. xxxiii. 
(1878-83); Blanford, Mamm. Brit. India, p. 86 (1888). 
felis catolynx, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. vol. i. p. 83 (1811). 
Lynx chaus, Fischer, Zoognosie, p. 230 (1814). 
felis kutas, Pearson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. i. p. 75 
(1832). 
felis affinis, Gray, Illustrations Indian Zool. vol. i. pl. iii. 
(1832). 
felis erythrotis, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. y. p. 
233 (1836). 
felis inconspicua, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. i. p. 577 
(1837). 
Chaus libycus, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 45 (1843). 
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