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Felis uncia. 



FIGURED by Buffon, and in Griffith's Cuvier, is the 

 type. Although drawn by us from a living speci- 

 men in the Tower, and already figured by Buffon, it 

 was by some naturalists not only doubted, but even 

 denied to exist. There is now, however, a stuffed 

 specimen in the British Museum, to convince the 

 most incredulous. By this the characters common 

 to the group may be fixed ; namely, a comparatively 

 small head ; short, but powerful limbs ; a very long 

 tail, apparently more bushy at the end than at the 

 base, and a system of markings neither striped, nor 

 rose shaped, nor of single spots, but of irregular or 

 angular diagrams, upon a whitish rufous or grey 

 livery.* 



Besides the above mentioned, we regard the Ri- 

 mau dahan, Fells macrocelis, Temm., as a second 

 species, and, probably, Felis nebulosa, Griffith, is a 

 third ; we described this before the other was known, 

 from a living specimen in the Menagerie of Exeter 



* The figure in Volume II., Felinae, of this work, is colour- 

 ed wrong, the fur being white, with very little tawny ; that 

 in Griffith's Cuvier was negligently copied, and the terminal 

 portion of the tail apparently forgotten. 



