CHAP, xii.] DIFFERENT KINDS OF CATS. 419 



Length of head and body from twenty-one to twenty- four inches. 



Of tail, from six to eight inches. 



The skull is elongated and the orbits are completely enclosed by 

 bone, but its most remarkable character is the large size of the first 

 premolars both above and below. The first upper premolar is two- 

 rooted and largely developed, its crown being sometimes actually 

 longer from above downwards than is the sectorial tooth. The first 

 lower premolar is also as vertically extended as is the second. This 

 structure would accord with a fish-catching habit, like that which is 

 attributed to Pel-is viverrina. 



Dr. Gray gives Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo as the habitat of 

 this species. 



(35.) THE BOENEAN BAY CAT (Fells Badia)* 



This unspotted and therefore exceptional small species of cat was 

 first made known by Dr. Gray from a very imperfect skin (the 

 type of the species) which is now in the British Museum. It is 

 thus described : 



" Fur of a bright chestnut colour, rather paler beneath, the 

 limbs and the tail being rather paler and redder. The tail is 

 elongate, tapering at the end, with a white central streak occupying 

 the hinder half of the lower side, gradually becoming wider and of 

 a purer white towards the tip, which has a small black spot at its 

 upper end. The ears are rounded, covered with short blackish- 

 brown fur at the outer side, pale brown within, and with a very 

 narrow pale margin. The sides of the upper lip, a small spot on 

 the front angle, and the edge of the upper eyelid pale brown. The 

 chin, edge of the under jaw, and gullet whitish/' 



The orbits are nearly encircled by bone, and there is a good-sized 

 pterygoid fossa. Unlike F. planiccps, this cat has its first upper 

 premolar of but small size and with a single root. 



Habitat : Sarawak, Borneo. 



(36.) THE EGYPTIAN CAT (Felis ealigata). \ 



10. This species varies from pale fulvous, to grey or pale 

 yellowish, with darkish transverse markings on the legs and towards 

 the end of the tail, and two transverse streaks on the cheeks. 



As has been said in the first chapter, this species is probably the 

 main source of the domestic cat. 



According to Dr. Gray, " Many specimens of Felis ealigata from 

 Africa, like Fells domestica, F. indica, and F. torquata, and many 

 other species, have the hinder part of the feet black ; but this is 

 not a permanent character; for some of the paler specimens of 

 F. ealigata have the hind feet paler than the back of the animal, 



* Gray, Pro. Zool. Soc., 1874, p. 322, 



plate 49. 



Gray, Brit. Mus. Cat., p. 29; 



Felis maniculata, Ruppell, Zool. Atlas, 

 i., t. 19; Felis Chaus, Ruppell, Zool. 

 Atlas, i., t 140. 



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