\2i African Zoolofjij. 



J.ength from iiosc fo li.ipe of tail about two feet; Jcugth of tail 

 thirteen inches. Ilciprht about ten inches. 



Inhabits South Africa. — Abyssinia, Bruce. 



Felis caligata, Teiii. Monogr. de Mamm. p. 123. Felis iin- 

 fl.'ita, Desm. Nov. Did. de I' Hist. Nat. vi. young. ? Cuv. Ossem. 

 Fuss'.L )v. 435. adult. Wilde-Kat of (he Cupe Colonists. 



Felis Obscura, F. Cuvier. Fur of a Aery deep brown black 

 with iiumerons transverse stripes entirely black. 

 Inhabits South Africa, — rare. 

 Chat noir du Cap. Diet. d( s Sciences Naturellcs, torn viii. 



Felis maniculata, Cretzschmar. (Small-footed Cat.) Woolly 

 liair, a dirty ochre colour, darkest on the back and hinder 

 parts ; bristly hair black-brown, annulated with dirty white ; 

 .skin of lips naked and black like the nose ; bristles of beard and 

 eyebrows glittering white, and brown at their roots ; extremity 

 of juuz/.le a dark ochre colour : eyes ficiy yellow, and from 

 the inner cor/ier of each a dark stripe extends tow ards the nose, 

 each of which is margined on its inner side by a white stripe, » 

 which extends to the eyebrows ; space between the latter as far 

 as forehead, fulvous ; outer surfaces of cars crey, inner white; 

 crown marked by eight narrow undulated black lines which ex-^ 

 tend along the bindhcad and are lost on the neck. Checks, 

 throat, and fore part of neck, shining white ; the former crossed 

 by two ochre-coloured lines which unite below the ears ; the 

 neck is surrounded by two similar coloured rings, and is also 

 marked by spots of the same tint ; breast and belly white, 

 mottled with yellow spots ; along the back a dark stripe which 

 arises at the shoulders and loses itself on the upper surface of 

 the tail ; lower surface of tail whitish yellow, and at the point 

 it is surrounded with two black rings. Extremities of tlie same 

 colour as the body ; the fore ones with five transverse black bands, 

 tlie hinder ones with six distinct transverse stripes which extend, 

 round to the inner sides ; each of the fore legs with two large 

 black blotches on the inner surface ; tha soles and back pans of 

 feet, clear black. Length from nose to base of tail twenty inches ; 

 length of tail nearly nine inches and a quarter : height at 

 shoulder nine inches and a half, at rump ten inches and three 

 quarters. 



Inhabits Nubia, and the western side of the Nile, near Ara- 

 bukol. 



Felis Chaus, Guildenstadt. (Short-tailed Cat.) Woolly hair 

 Boft and very abundant ; bristly hair thin and rough ; the 

 former dirty ochre yellow, darkest on the back ; the latter 

 similarly coloured towards body, each hair annulated towards 

 its middle with black-brown, the tips in general grey-yellow 



