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between 6 and 6|- feet, of which from 2 feet 6 inches 

 to about 3 feet is taken up by the long, thickly-haired 

 tail. The colouring may be regarded as a modification 

 of the type found in the snow-leopard ; for if we 

 imagine the ciark rosettes of the latter diminished in 

 number and extended in size, so as to form large 

 blotches with dark margins and centres of a somewhat 

 deeper shade than the general ground-colour, we 

 should have the " clouded " pattern met with in the 

 present species. The ground-colour is some shade of 

 pale yellowish-grey, upon which are dark blotches or 

 patches of a couple of inches or more in diameter ; 

 these being frequently edged in part, especially on the 

 hind border, with black. In aged indiviciuals the 

 blotches themselves tend more or less completely to 

 disappear, leaving little or nothing more than their 

 broken black margins. The upper surface of the 

 head is ornamented with solid black spots ; and two 

 broad black bands, separated by narrower streaks or 

 rows of elongated spots, run from the ears to the 

 shoulders, to be continued as more or less ill-defined 

 lines of oval spots along the middle of the back. The 

 cheeks have the two black stripes so common among 

 the smaller cats, and the margins of the upper lip may 

 be also black, while the black of the outer surface of 

 the ear is frequently relieved with a central grey spot. 

 The tail is ornamented with a series of dusky rings, 

 frequently imperfect on the sides, and connected along 

 the upper surface of the basal portion by a dark, 

 longitudinal stripe. Typically the tail is of great 

 relative length — frequently nearly as long as the head 

 and body — but in Formosa there is a shorter-tailed 

 race of the species, known as Felis nebulosa brachyurus. 

 As is indicated by its Malay name, the clouded 

 tiger is arboreal, and its food appears to consist of 

 small mammals and birds, for which it lies in wait on 

 the branches of trees. In Borneo it occurs both on 

 the plains and in the mountains up to an elevation of 



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