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 No- 23. Felis Bengalensis. 



JERDON, No. 110, PAGE 105 ; LEOPARD CAT. 



Although this beautiful wild cat is very bold and common in 

 Burmah, I have never been able to shoot one. I have constantly 

 seen them just before sunset close to Burmese villages and Phoon- 

 ghee houses, (monasteries) and once saw one carry off a fowl nearly 

 as large as itself ; shaking it savagely meanwhile, and making a 

 successful retreat in spite of the abuse, uproar and missiles which 

 the theft caused. 



The Burmese specimens of this species appeared to me to be 

 smaller and more richly marked than two I saw last year, that had 

 been brought from the Western Ghats, or rather Jardine's Natural- 

 ist's library, Plate 20. " F. Bengalensis," to me appears more like 

 the specimens I have seen in Burmah, while 19, Felis Javanensia 

 reminds me more of the Indian cats. 



No. 24. Felis Torquata- 

 JERDON, No. 114, PAGE 110; SPOTTED WILD CAT. 

 My dogs have often killed small wild cats, which much resem- 

 bled the description given of this animal, and as Jerdon says, the 

 figure given of " F. Servalina" in Jardine's " Naturalist's library," 

 I always fancied however that they were hybrids between the 

 domestic cat and some wild one, or the progeny of the domestic cat 

 run wild. 



No. 25. Fells-Chans. 



JERDON, No. 115, PAGE 111 ; COMMON JUNGLE CAT. 

 The peculiar ear-tuft of this cat varies in length a good deal, 

 perhaps with sex, age and season. The drawing in Jardine's 

 "Naturalist's library," if it were of a darker and more jackal-like 

 grey, would not give a bad idea of this animal it stands very high 

 on the leg, and I once laid greyhounds into one, that had been 

 turned out of some grass by a terrier, thinking it was a jackal. 

 They are very powerful animals, and one. of them will give a couple 

 of greyhounds far more trouble to kill it than a jackal would. 



