234 SOME CHINESE VERTEBRATES. 



PTEROMYS ALBO-RUFUS Milne Edwards. 



A trade skin of this beautiful flying squirrel was obtained by Mr. Zappey 

 in the Province of Hupeh in 1907. It is identical in color with Milne Edwards's 

 fine plate 45 (Recherches hist. nat. mammiferes) . 



FELIDAE. 



FELIS INGRAMI Bonhote. 



I have identified with this species a skin without skull obtained by Mr. 

 Zappey at Changyanghsien, Hupeh, in January, 1909. In color it is similar to 

 the specimen described by Bonhote (1903, p. 374) from the Wanchinshan Moun- 

 tains in the neighboring province of Kweichow with which it further agrees in 

 the shortness of the tail compared with the length of head and body. Bonhote 

 gives for dimensions: head and body, 480; tail, 200; hind foot, 75. Our skin 

 measures (dried) much the same, except that the hind foot seems longer, but 

 exact measurements are now impossible to obtain. 



FELIS SCRIPTA Milne Edwards. 



A skin of a fine male from Suifu, western Szechwan, agrees well with Milne 

 Edwards's figures and description of the type from the same province, in the 

 principality of Moupin. 



FELIS PARDUS FONTANIERI (Milne Edwards). 



Two partially dressed leopard skins were obtained by Mr. Zappey from the 

 King of Tachienlu, western Szechwan. These seem undoubtedly to represent 

 Fontanier's Leopard, described by Milne Edwards from the neighborhood of 

 Pekin. The fur is thick and woolly, and the general color above is very pale, 

 nearly buff-yellow of Ridgway, agreeing well with the plates in Milne Edward's 

 "Recherches." One of these skins measures approximately 1800 mm. from 

 muzzle to tip of tail, and the tail alone measures about 760 mm. ; in the second 

 and larger skin these measurements are approximately 1950 mm. and 640 mm. 

 Milne Edwards gives 1920 and 750 for these two measurements respectively. 



The black spots in our skins are apt to be somewhat brownish due to the 

 length of the chocolate-colored bases of the hairs. In the larger specimen, 

 the black areas on the back are somewhat confluent producing a very confused 

 and mottled pattern. 



