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river. The species has been known to occur 

 as far north as the Red River in Louisiana ; it 

 was formerly not uncommon on the lower Rio 

 Grande in Texas, and ranges far to the south 

 in Uruguay and Argentina. 



7. The CLOUDED TIGER (F. macrocelis). This 

 fine species, about six and a half feet long, is 

 last in the list of large cats. It inhabits south- 

 eastern Asia, with some of the outlying islands. 

 It is of a brownish gray, with darker patches 

 irregularly disposed in vertical markings. 



8. The THIBET TIGER-CAT (F. scripta), re- 

 stricted to Thibet, and similar to the last spe- 

 cies, but much smaller. 



9. FONTANEIR'S CAT (F. tristis), pale gray, 

 variously spotted, and marked with rusty 

 brown ; found in China. 



10. The GOLDEN CAT (F. moormensis), about 

 four feet in length, uniform red-bay in color, 

 with a few indistinct spots on the sides. This 

 beautiful species comes from India, where its 

 exact range is not fully made out. 



11. The FISHING CAT (F. mverrina), a heavily 

 built cat, gray in color, very irregularly marked 

 with dark-brown spots. The body is about 



