192 WILD CAT. 



along the whole ridge of the back, forms a broad 

 irregular undulating band, from which proceed bars 

 of the same colour passing over the sides. The 

 tail is marked with nine bands, of which the first 

 five are small, and do not meet beneath, the rest 

 annular and enlarging, the terminal by about two 

 inches in breadth, and deepest in tint. A narrow 

 black line from the posterior angle of the eye, and 

 another from a little beneath it, nearly parallel, and 

 terminating on the cheek, somewhat farther back 

 than the ear. The bare edges of the lips are 

 blackish ; their hair and the chin yellowish-white ; 

 the lower parts of the neck of a uniform pale red- 

 dish-brown. There is a pure white spot at the 

 junction of the neck and thorax. The pectoral 

 *gion white, with roundish black spots ; the abdo- 

 minal reddish, and similarly spotted, its lower part 

 pure white; that of the pubes, and the posterior, 

 part of the thighs, bright yellowish -red, which colour 

 extends a little down the tail; the genital region 

 blackish, with very short hairs. The fore legs are 

 transversely barred with black ; their posterior part, 

 opposite the elbow-joint, black, mottled with whitish, 

 the under part of the feet black ; the hind legs 

 barred in the same manner, and also black beneath. 

 The claws are yellowish-grey. 



The softer hairs or fur are, in general, of a pale 

 purplish tint, and pale-reddish at the extremity ; the 

 longer hairs white at the base, then black, after- 

 wards yellowish-red, with the tip black. Others, 

 however, are first white, then black, yellowish- 



