W% MAMMALIA. 



fawn coloured spots bordered with black, forming oblique bands on 

 the flank. From America. 



F. mitis, Fr. Cuv. (The Chati). Marked with unconnected, 

 triangular, fawn coloured spots, edged with black. 



F. cafra. (The Cat of Caifraria). Stands high on its legs ; grey, 

 transversely striped with black. 



F. serval, BuflP. XIII. xxxv. (The Serval). Yellowish, with ir- 

 regular black spots. From Africa. 



F. jacjnarondi, Azzara, Voy., pi. 9. (The Jaguarondi). Body 

 long; and altogether of a blackish brown. From the forests of South 

 America. 



F. catus, L. ; Buff. VI. i. et seq. (The Domestic Cat). Is ori- 

 ginally from the forests of Europe. In its wild state it is of a grey- 

 ish brown, with darker transverse undulations ; below pale ; the in- 

 sides of the thighs and of all the feet, yellowish; three bands on the 

 tail, its inferior third blackish. In a domestic state it varies, as is 

 well known, in colours, in the length and fineness of the hair, but 

 infinitely less so than the dog; it is also much less submissive and 

 affectionate*. 



We might also place in a separate subgenus, a species whose head 

 is rounder and shorter, and whose nails are not retractile, the Felis 

 jubata, Schreb. 105, and better, Fel. (juttata, Id. 105, b, (The Hunt- 

 ing Leopard), which is the size of the Leopard, but longer bodied, 

 and stands higher ; the tail long, annulated at the end ; the fur fawn 

 colour, mottled with small uniform black spots, a black streak reach- 

 ing from the eye to the angle of the mouth. The disposition of this 

 animal differs from that of the remainder of the genus in being ex- 

 tremely mild and docile. The 



AMPHIBIA 



Will form the third and last of the small tribes into which we divide the 

 Carnivora. Their feet are so short and so enveloped in the skin, that the 

 only service they can render them on land, is to enable them to crawl ; 

 but as the intervals of the fingers are occupied by membranes, they are 

 excellent oars ; and, in fact, these animals pass the greater portion of their 

 time in the water ; never landing, except for the purpose of basking in the 

 sun, and suckling their young. Their elongated body; their very move- 

 able spine, which is provided with muscles that strongly flex it ; theii- 

 narrow pelvis ; their short hair, that adheres closely to the skin, all unite 



* The species, more or less allied to the cat, are very numerous in the two conti- 

 nents; but all those that are given in catalogues are very far from being authentic, 

 and sufficiently distinguished from each other. We may, however, consider as such, 

 those of which we have good figures. The Margay, Buff.; Felis tlgrina, Gm., Buff. 

 XIII.; Schreb. 106. — FeLmacroura, Pr. Max., Brazil, pl.xi. — Felis sumatra7ia,HoTsi. 

 — Fel. javanensis, Id. — Fel. torquata, Fred. Cuv. — Fel. colocolo, Fred. Cuv. Mammif., 

 &c. 



