174 THE RIMAU-DAHAN. 



generic character, present nothing peculiar : in the 

 specimen before me, the second set of canine teeth 

 is protruding, while the first still occupies its origi- 

 nal situation. The neck is rather slender, and of 

 moderate length. In its general habit, our animal 

 has much of the elegance and gracefulness of the 

 Leopard : the form of the body is on the whole cy- 

 lindrical ; the breast and flanks have a moderate ro- 

 tundity, and not the flatness which is frequently ob- 

 served in the Tiger, but in the character of the ex- 

 tremities, our animal resembles the latter species. 

 The strength and robustness of the thighs, legs, and 

 feet, afford a peculiarity to it, which has very pro* 

 perly been taken by M. Temminck as the character 

 of the species. The tail is of greater length and 

 fulness than in any other species of Felis hitherto 

 discovered : it is equal in length to the body and 

 neck together. The hairy covering of the tail is 

 longer and more delicate than that of the body ; it 

 increases in thickness towards the extremity of that 

 organ, where it has a lanuginous texture. In gene- 

 ral, the animal is thickly clothed with fur, which is 

 of moderate length, soft to the touch, and provided 

 at the base with a soft down. 



" The ground colour of our animal is a whitish- , 

 grey, inclining to cinereous or to brownish-grey; and 

 one of the peculiarities mentioned by Sir Stamfoid 

 Raffles, is the almost entire absence of yellow or red 

 in the external tint. On the upper portions of the 

 neck and back, the tint is more purely cinereous; 



