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THE CAT. 



[CHAP. xii. 



every hair tipped with white, a silvery- grey appearance being 

 thereby given to the cat. Face beneath the eye light reddish, with 

 two narrow dark lines across the cheeks to beneath the ears. 

 Throat, breast, and belly white, the latter spotted and marked with 

 rufous. Inside of legs rufous-brown, growing light towards the 



Fig. 177. THE FLAT-HEADED CAT (F. planiceps). \ 



feet. Tail rather short and thickly furred and of a reddish-brown 



Fig. 178. SKULL OF FLAT-HEADED CAT (Felis planiceps). 



colour above, beneath yellowish-brown. It is about the size of a 

 domestic cat. 



