360 CAPE CAT. 



wards, with black; the shoulders and body marked 

 both with stripes and large oblong black spots ; on 

 the legs the spots are small : the breast, belly, and 

 insides of the limbs, are whitish : the tail is long, 

 and marked with black, grey, and fulvous. It 

 resides principally on trees, preying on birds : it 

 is said to breed in the hollows of trees, and to 

 bring but two young at a birth. It is very fierce 

 and un tain cable. 



CAPE CAT. 



Fells Capensis. F. cauda subelongata fusca nigro maculata, cor- 

 pore fvho supra maculis virgatis infra orbkularibus, auricuiis 

 nudis macula Ivnata alba. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p.8i. 



Fulvous Cat, with subelongated tail annulated with black ; the 

 body marked with black stripes above; with roundish and 

 lunated black spots on the other parts, and a lunated white 

 bar on the ears. 



Cape Cat. Pennant Quadr. i.p. 291. 



Felis Capensis. Cape Cat. Miller Cimclia, Physica. pi. 39. 



THIS elegant species inhabits the neighbour- 

 hood of the Cape of Good Hope, and is described 

 in the Philosophical Transactions, vol. 1\, by Dr. 

 Forster. In its manners it seems extremely to 

 resemble the common Cat; frequenting trees, and 

 preying on the smaller animals. The specimen 

 described by Dr. Forster was not more than nine 

 months old, and had been taken quite young. It 

 was perfectly tame and gentle, and had all the 

 actions and manners of a domestic Cat. Dr. 

 Forster imagines it to be the same species with 



