238 THE EGYPTIAN CAT. 



terior parts assumes a darker hue, and gradually be- 

 comes lighter on the anterior and lateral parts ; its 

 bristles are of a swarthy dirty white colour and 

 wrinkled, thus giving the animal an appearance of a 

 greyish yellow hue. The skin of the labial edges 

 and tfie nose are bare, and of a black colour. The 

 beard and bristles of the eyebrows are of a shining 

 white colour, but are brown at their roots ; the edges 

 of the eyelids are black ; the iris is of a glaring yellow. 

 From the inner corner at the eye, a dark brown 

 streak runs in the direction of the nose, and side- 

 ways at that streak, and towards the middle, runs 

 another white streak as far up as the arch of the 

 eyebrows ; between these two streaks is to be found 

 another streak of a greyish colour, extending on 

 the forehead by the side of the ears, and under the 

 eyes. The exterior of the ears is grey, the inte- 

 rior white and without tufts of hair ; eight slen- 

 der black undulating lines, taking their origin on 

 the forehead, and from thence running along the oc- 

 ciput, lose themselves in the upper part of the neck ; 

 the cheeks, throat, and anterior part of the neck are 

 of a shining white. Two lines of an ochre-yellow 

 colour, the one starting from the outer corner of the 

 eye, the other from the middle of the cheek, meet 

 both together under the ear ; two rings of the same 

 ochre-yellow colour encircle the white neck, and be- 

 low these rings similar coloured spots occur. The 

 chest and belly are of a dirty white colour, and pre- 



