352 Dr. J. E. Gray on the 



" Chat de Nepaul " (Felis torquata) of F. Cuvier — which is said 

 by Blyth and Jerdon to be the same as my Felis ornata figured 

 in the ' Indian Zoology/ the spotted wild cat of Jerdon. 

 Two species cannot be more unlike, the one being a cat with 

 round spots, and the other a cat with cross bands, evi- 

 dently the same as Felis nipalensis of Vigors and Horsfield, 

 believed to be a hybrid between the domestic cat and some 

 Indian wild cat. Indeed the way in which some Indian 

 zoologists quote the figures of GeofTroy St.-Hilaire and 

 Cuvier's ' Hist. Nat. des Mammiferes ' makes me very doubt- 

 ful if they have the book to consult. 



Most of the species cited are described in the 'Catalogue of 

 Carnivorous Mammalia in the British Museum,' in which the 

 skulls of many species are figured. The habitats are those 

 attached to the specimens in the British Museum, and they give 

 the distribution of the species from the actual comparison of 

 specimens ; sometimes, however, as in the case of Malacca, the 

 habitat given may be only the port from which the specimen 

 was shipped. 



I. Cats. Ears rounded, not ending in a 'pencil of hairs ; legs 

 moderate; tail more or less elongate. 



A. Cheeks without any streak radiating from the back edge of the 



eye. 



1. Leo. 



1. Leo nobilis. Africa; Persia; Guzcrat. B.M. 



2. Uncia. 



2. Unda irhis. Thibet. B.M. 



3. Leopardus. 



3. Leopardus pardus. India, Nepal ; Senegal. B.M. 



4. L. ja/ponensis. Japan. 



5. L. chinensis (Felis FontanieriijM-.-Ei&vr.?). China. B.M. 



6. L. onca, var. (L. Ilernandesii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 278, 



t. lviii.j 1867, p. 402). South America. B.M. 



4. Serval. 



7. Serval capensis. North, West, and South Africa. B.M. 



8. S. rutila(Felisaurata ) Elliot). Senegal, Sierra Leone. B.M. 



9. S. neghcta. Gambia. B.M. 

 10. S. servalina. Sierra Leone, Senegal. B.M. 



Mr. Elliot regards Felis rutila, F. neglecta, and F. celido- 



