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No. 22, Page 34. Felts viverrina. 

 The large Tiger-Cat. 



Jerdon gives the following description of this fine tiger-cat : 



" Of a mouse grey-color, more or less deep, and sometimes 

 tinged with tawny, with large dark spots more or less numerous, 

 oblong on the back and neck, and in lines, more or less rounded 

 elsewhere, and broken or coalescing ; cheeks white ; a black face 

 stripe ; beneath dull white ; chest with five or six dark bands ; 

 belly spotted ; tail with six or seven dark bands and a black tip ; 

 feet unspotted ; whiskers either entirely white, or with a white tip. 



Length, head and body 30 to 34 inches, and sometimes more ; 

 tail, 10J to 12^ ; height about 15 or 16 inches ; weight of one 

 1 7 Ibs. The ears are rather small and blunt, the pupil, circular ; 

 the fur, coarse and without any gloss ; the limbs, short and very 

 strong. The nasal bones are somewhat attenuated, causing a 

 narrowness of visage which has suggested the names viverrina and 

 viverriceps. In old animals the bony orbital rings are complete. 



This large tiger-cat is found throughout Bengal up to the foot of 

 the south-eastern Himalayas extending into Burmah, China and 

 Malayana. I have not heard of its occurrence in Central India, nor 

 in the Carnatic, but it is tolerably common in Travancore and 

 Ceylon, extending up the Malabar Coast as far as Mangalore. I 

 have had one killed close to my house at Tellicherry." 



No. 23, Page 3o.Felis Bengalensis. 



Leopard-Cat. 



Jerdon gives the following minute description of this very 

 beautiful cat. 



" Ground hue, varying from fulvous-grey to bright tawny 

 yellow, occasionally pale yellowish grey or yellowish, rarely 

 greenish-ashy, or brownish-grey ; lower parts pure white ; four 

 longitudinal spots on the forehead, and in a line with these four 

 lines run from the vertex to the shoulders, the outer one broader, 

 the centre ones narrower, and these two last are continued almost, 

 uninterruptedly to the tail ; the others pass into larger bold, 

 irregular, unequal, longitudinal spots on the shoulders, back and 

 sides, generally arranged in five or six distinct rows, decreasing 



