SERV ALINE CAT. 



Felis servatina. 

 PLATE XXV. 



THE animal from which our Twenty-Third Illus- 

 tration is given, under the title of F. nrnata, is a 

 very perfect specimen in the Edinhurgh Museum. 

 Upon our first examination, we considered it as 

 identical with an animal which Mr Gray has figured 

 in his interesting illustrations of Indian zoology, se- 

 lected from the drawings of General Hardwicke; 

 but upon submitting our plate to the discrimina- 

 tion of that gentleman, he considered them dis- 

 tinct, and we have therefore thought it just to Mr 

 Gray to keep them separate, until a comparison 

 of specimens enables us to judge of the correct- 

 ness or incorrectness of our suspicions. Both ani- 

 mals are fiom India; the colour and markings are 

 very nearly similar, and there is no other Indian 

 species to which it bears any resemblance. The 

 following is a description from our specimen, a fe- 

 male, and apparently an adult. 



In this animal the fur is longer and more wiry 

 than that of the small cats of Lower India, where 

 it is soft and almost woolly ; and in this it resembled 



