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DIFFERENT KINDS OF GATS. 



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with a whitish spot on each side of the upper lip. It is about 

 the size of the domestic cat, save that its legs are much shorter 

 than that animal's. 



The pupil is round.* 



The skull is much elongated and greatly flattened above. 



The nose is a little pinched in laterally. 



The first upper premolar is present. 



The specimen in the Zoological Gardens was very gentle, but 

 another one was quite untameable. 



It inhabits Brazil, Guiana and Paraguay, and though rare north- 

 wards of Panama, extends upwards to the Rio del Norte between 

 Mexico and Texas. 



(25.) THE COLOCOLLO (Fclis colocotto) .f 



This animal is about the size of the common cat or somewhat 

 larger. It is of a whitish- grey colour, with elongated black marks 

 on the back and sides, and with a black mark extending from the 

 eye to the jaw. The tail is said to be semi-annulated and the 

 lower parts of the limbs to be of a dark grey hue. 



The skull has the orbits not enclosed by bone. 



There is no first upper premolar. The upper true molar is 

 visible when the skull is seen in profile. The infra- orbital fora- 

 men is large. The skull is much elongated and depressed. The 

 muzzle produced, and the upper surface of the snout markedly 

 concave when the skull is looked at in profile. When the skull 

 is seen from above, the prominence of the upper jaw causes part 

 Of the anterior palatine foramina to be distinctly visible. The 

 nasals narrow very gradually backwards, and do not extend so far 

 backwards as do the nasal processes of the maxillae. 



The animal inhabits Guiana and Chili, and doubtless intermediate 

 countries also. 



(26.) THE RUSTY-SPOTTED CAT (Felis rubiginosa),^ 



9. This pretty little cat is said by Mr. Jerdon to frequent 

 brushwood and grass growing in the dry beds of tanks, as well 

 as the jungle. 



Its colour is greenish-grey, with a fainfc rufous tinge ; beneath 

 and inside of limbs white ; a white superciliary streak extending on 



* This has heen kindly ascertained for 

 me by Mr. A. D. Bartlett, of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society. 



f Hamilton Smith in Griffith's Animal 

 Kingdom, vol. ii., p. 479 (with a figure) ; 

 F. Cuvier's Maramiferes, iii. ; F. Strigi- 

 lata, Wagner's Supplement to Schreber's 

 Saugth., vol. ii., p. 546. See also a 

 paper by Dr. Ii. A. Philippi, in Wieg- 



mann's Archiv, 1873, vol. i., p. 8, 

 plate 3, Figs. 1 and 2. 



$ See Mr. Elliot's Monograph, from, 

 which the above figure has been taken. 

 It is the F. rubiginosa of Jerdon's Mam- 

 mals of British India, p. 108 ; and the 

 Vivcrriccps rubiginosa of Gray, Pro. 

 Zool. Soc., 1867, p. 269; and Catalogue 

 of Garni vora, p. 18. 



