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DIFFERENT KINDS OF CAfS. 



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others round ; cheeks and lips whitish, with small hrown spots ; 

 throat and chest with six or seven half-circular hrown bands ; lower 

 parts and inner sides of the limbs pure white, with large round 

 chocolate-brown spots ; two bands of this colour on the inner side of 

 the fore, and four on the hind feet; tail bay-brown, with paler 

 brown rings, end black brown ; outer surface of the ears black ; 

 claws white." 



Length of body and head, twenty-six inches ; that of tail, fourteen 

 inches. 



Mr. Elliot identifies this with the F. negkcta of Gray and the 

 F. rutila of Waterhouse (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 759), and describes it in 

 his Monograph under the name F. chrysothrix. 



The other doubtful species is Fells senegalensis of Lesson.* The 

 fur of this animal is of a uniform reddish grey, paler beneath, with 

 black spots inclining on the back to run into longitudinal stripes ; 

 spots on limbs ; tail ringed ; two black stripes from eye to ear ; 

 muzzle, chin, and throat white. 



The individual described was about the size of the domestic cat, 

 and was regarded as probably immature. It seems probably to 

 have been a young Serval. 



Habitat, Senegal. 



As to this species or variety Professor Alphonse Milne-Edwards 

 has been so kind as to inform the author that no specimen of it 

 exists in the Paris Museum. The original description was made 

 from a living animal at the hospital of Rochefort-sur-Mer. A 

 young Serval in the Paris Museum closely resembles the description 

 of F. senegalemis, but has a tuft of hairs on each ear. 



(17.) THE GREY AFRICAN CAT (Felis negkcta). \ 



This is rather smaller than the last species, and is well distin- 

 guished by its grey colour. The type is in the British Museum, 

 and was originally described by Dr. Gray as follows : 



" Grey ; head and body marked with numerous small darker 

 spots, spots of the lower part of the sides rather larger ; belly white, 

 with large blackish spots ; tail quite half the length of the body, 

 with a dark line along the upper surface, sides paler, with obscure 

 indications of darker bands." 



No dark streak on the cheek. 



Habitat, Gambia. 



* Lesson, Gue'rin's Mag. de Zool., 

 1839, t. x., Manimiferes. 



t Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 1838, vol. i., p. 27; Pro. Zool. Soc., 

 1867, pp. 272 and 294 ; and Brit. Mus. 



Cat., p. 24. Mr. Elliot, in his Mono- 

 graph, identifies this with the species 

 last described ; but to me it appears 

 very distinct from the latter. 



