^NIA^ 

 SUMATRAN AND JAVANESE CATS. 



Fells minuta TEMMINCK. 

 PLATES XVIII. and XIX. 



PI. xviii. Felis Sumatrana, Horsfield, Zool. Researches in 

 Java. Kuwuk Javanese. PL xix. Felis Javanensis, 

 Horsf- Zool. Researches in Java Felis servalin, Fells 

 minuta, Temminck, Monographies, p. 130. 



THE figures which accompany this description re- 

 present animals, at first sight, apparently very dif- 

 ferent, and they have, in fact, been described as 

 different species. It is now, however, pretty well 

 ascertained, that they are the young and the adult 

 states of the same animal ; and, on this account, we 

 have thought it better to adopt the name given to it 

 i>y Temminck (though it is a bad one), than to re- 

 tain the former names given to them from the coun- 

 try in which they are found. 



Both states are figured by Dr Horsfield, in his 

 excellent Zoological Researches, from specimens col- 

 lected by Sir Stamford Raffles. The general colour 

 of the adult is ferruginous, inclining to yellowish-grey, 

 more intense on the back, the crown of the head, 

 and upper part of the tail, paler on the sides, and 

 passing into whitish-grey on the cheeks, breast, ab- 

 domen, and the interior o: the thighs and legs. The 



