SUMATRAN AND JAVANESE CATS. 



Fells minuta TEMMINCK. 

 PLATES XVIII. and XIX. 



PI. xviii. Felis Sumatrana, Horsfield, Zoo/. Researches in 

 Java. Kuwuk Javanese, PI. xix. Felis Javanensis, 

 Horsf. Zoo/. Researches in Java. Felis servalin, Felis 

 minuta, Temminck, Monographies, p. 130. 



THE figures which accompany this description re- 

 present animals, at first sight, apparently very dif- 

 ferent, and they have, in fact, been described as 

 different species. It is now, however, pretty well 

 ascertained, that they are the young and the adult 

 states of die same animal ; and, on this account, we 

 have thought it better to adopt the name given to it 

 by Temminck (though it is a bad one), than to re- 

 tain the former names given to them from the coun- 

 try in which they are found. 



Both states are figured by Dr Horsfield, in his 

 excellent Zoological Researches, from specimens col- 

 lected by Sir Stamford Raffles. The general colour 

 of the adult is ferruginous, inclining to yellowish-grey, 

 more intense on the back, the crown of the head, 

 mid upper part of the tail, paler on the sides, and 

 passing into whitish-grey on the cheeks, breast, ab- 

 ii, and the interior o: the thighs and legs. The 



