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THE RIMAU-DAHAN'. 



Felis mcr0c0#s. TEMMJNCK. 

 PLATE IX. 



Rimau-Dahan, Raffles, Trans. Linnean Society* vol. xiii. 

 p. 251. Dr Horsjield, ZoologicalJournal, vol. i. p. 542. 

 Felis longibande ; Felis macrocelis, Temminck, Mono- 

 graphies, p. 102. 



THE first notice of this interesting animal was 

 given by Sir Stamford Raffles, in his Descriptive 

 Catalogue of a Collection made at Sumatra. Sub- 

 sequently Dr Horsfield gave a detailed description 

 and an excellent plate of it, which we have now 

 made use of; and, about the same period, M. Tem- 

 mmck drew up an account from some imperfect 

 skins in the Dutch and Parisian collections, under 

 the name of F. macrocelis, which, upon his visit to 

 this country, he submitted to Dr Horsfield, who 

 found the animal to be identical with the Rimau- 

 Dahan of Sir Stamford. 



It is an animal of considerable size. Temminck 

 gives the length as 5 feet 6 inches, of which the tail 



" " Tree Tiger." M. Temminck says the orthography 

 should be Arimau-Dahan, 



