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assuming all sorts of queer attitudes. Brehm describes one as lying 
prone on a thick branch placed in its cage, with all four legs hanging 
down straight, two on each side of the branch—certainly a remarkable 
position for an animal to assume of its own free will. 
The type of this animal constitutes the genus JVeofelis of Gray, 
containing two species, this and the JVeofelis (leopardus) brachyurus of 
Formosa. 
No. 206. FELIS VIVERRINA. 
The Large Tiger-Cat (Jerdon’s No. 108). 
NativE Names.—Mach-bagral, Bagh-dasha, Bengali; Bunbiral, 
Khupya-bagh, Hindi ; Handoon-deeva, Singhalese. 
Hapirat.—India_ generally, Burmah, the Malay countries, and 
Ceylon. Jerdon says he has not heard of it in Central India nor in 
the Carnatic, nor farther west of Nepal. I have been, however, 
informed that a wild cat was killed lately at Jeypore in the act of 
carrying off an infant of four months old. I know of no cat, save this 
species, capable of such a proceeding. ‘The child was rescued alive. 
DeEscription.—‘ Of a 
mouse gray colour, more 
or less deep and some- 
times tinged with tawny, 
with large dark spots, 
more or less numerous, 
oblong on the back and 
neck and in lines, more 
orless rounded elsewhere, 
and broken or coalesc- 
ing” (but never ocellate : 
Blyth) ; “cheeks white ; 
a black face stripe; 
beneath dull white ; chest 
with five or six dark —— 
bands; belly spotted,” Skull of Felis viverrina. 
{whence the name cedi- 
dogaster applied by Temminck) “ tail with six or seven dark bands and 
a black tip” (sometimes spots only); ‘‘ feet unspotted.”—/erdon. 
Si1ze.—Head and body 30 to 34 inches; tail only 10 to 13; height 
about 15 or 16; weight according to Hodgson and Jerdon, about 17 lbs. 
The frontal and jugal bones in old specimens of this species are 
united by a bar which forms a complete bony orbit—a peculiarity 
possessed, as I have before observed, by / J/ongicaudata, but by few 
other felines. Lélis rubiginosa, F. planiceps, and & Ellioti are also cats 
of this type, which Gray has separated into the genus Viverriceps. 
