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THE CAT. 



[CHAP. XII. 



spots on the abdomen. It is very different from F. euptilura, 

 which has red spots on the sides and rufous bars across the breast. 



Length, from snout to root of tail, twenty-five inches ; of tail, 

 seven and eight inches. 



The skull is very long. 



General colour pale greyish fulvous above, the back rather 

 darker than the sides, underparts white ; the body marked through- 

 out with rather small black spots, which are largest on the abdomen, 

 smaller and closer together on the shoulders and thighs, tending to 

 form cross lines on the latter, and indistinct on the middle of the 

 back ; anterior portion of the face and muzzle whitish, cheek 

 stripes of rusty-red and black hairs mixed. Ears rather more 

 rufous outside, especially towards the tip, which is blackish-brown, 

 and pointed, the hairs at the end scarcely lengthened, interior of 

 ears white. There are some faint rufous spots at the sides of the 

 neck. Breast very faintly rufous, with one narrow brownish band 

 across. Inner sides of limbs mostly white, a black band inside the 

 forearm, and a very black spot behind the tarsus. Apparently 

 there are two black bands inside the thigh. Tail dusky above near 

 the base, with five or six black bars above on the posterior half, 

 none below, the dark bars close together towards the tip. Fur soft, 

 moderately long ; the hairs purplish-grey towards the base. Size, 

 larger than the common cat, about equal to that of F. Chaus. 



Habitat : Eastern Turkestan, Yarkand, and Kashgar. 



(43.) THE MANUL (Felis Hanul}.* 



This handsome animal is the wild cat of Thibet, Mongolia, and 

 Siberia. It is smaller than the common cat, with very long, soft 

 and abundant hair. It is of a pale whitish colour, varied by a 

 slight black mark on the upper part of the legs and chest. The 

 hairs are yellowish-grey at the base, then yellowish, with their 

 points white. There are a few transverse dark bands on the loins, 

 which are black, narrow, and rather far apart. A white streak, 

 bordered by black above and below, passes obliquely downwards 

 and backwards from behind the eye, and there is another black 

 mark behind the ear. 



Length from snout to root of tail, twenty-one inches. 



Length of tail, ten inches. 



The skulHs remarkable for its breadth and the prominence of 

 the interorbital region as compared with the nasal region. The 

 nasal bones are very narrow for their hinder two-thirds, and then 

 broaden out rather suddenly, forwards. 



Habitat : Thibet to Siberia. 



* Alph. Milne-Edwards, Heche r. des 

 Mam., p. 225, plate 31c ; Gray, Pro. 



Zool. Soc., 1867, p. 874 ; and Catalogue 

 of Carnivora, p. 33. 



