CHAP. XII.] 



DIFFERENT KINDS OF CATS. 



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The ground colour of its coat is dingy fulvous, occasionally 

 yellowish grey, with numerous elongate, wavy, black spots, some- 

 what clouded or marbled. On the sides of the body are large 

 irregular patches of a darker shade and with dark margins, 

 especially on the hinder edge of each patch. The head and nape 

 have some narrow blackish lines coalescing into a dorsal interrupted 

 band ; a dark line extends backwards from between the eye and the 

 mouth ; the thighs and part of the sides with black round spots ; the 



Fig. 173. THE MARBLED TIGER-CAT (F. marmorata). 



tail black spotted, with a black tip. The belly is yellowish white. 

 The colour becomes more fulvous with age. 



There are several skulls of this species in the collection of the 

 British Museum. These all agree in having the orbit nearly or 

 completely enclosed by a bony ring' the postorbital process of the 

 frontal meeting the postorbital process of the malar in the older 

 specimens. The skull is very broad at the zygomata. The first 

 upper premolar is very small, and the first lower premolar is not 

 very prominent. The premaxilla3 ascend and join the frontals, 

 thus separating the nasals from the maxilla) on the surface of the 

 skull. The pterygoid fossa is rather well developed. 



The pupil is said to be linear. 



' This species ranges from Nepal through Burrnah and Malacca 

 to Java and Borneo. 



