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" This species," Colonel Sykes remarks, " has a very extended geo- 

 graphical range, being found in Egypt, on the Caspian, in Persia, at 

 Bangalore, and in Dukhun. It frequents bushy moist situations. The 

 only addition I can give to the published descriptions of it is, that the 

 irides are of a bright reddish light yellow." 



Several of the smaller species of Felis above enumerated, have a very 

 close family resemblance, and zoological writers are not agreed as to 

 their specific distinctions. This remark applies, in the first instance, to 

 the Felis javanensis of Cuvier and Desmarest, and the Felis sumatrana 

 of Horsfield, which M. Temminck (Monogr. I. p. 133) unites (with 

 indications of several other small species) under his Felis minuta, a name 

 which doubtless may combine several species of the genus, without 

 clearly indicating their respective distinctions, and in the second place, 

 to Felis bengalensis, Desmarest, Felis torquata, Fred. Cuv., and Felis 

 (Leopardus} inconspicuus, Gray, the characters of which are by no 

 means satisfactorily defined ; further comparisons of individuals from 

 different localities are therefore required to determine the respective 

 rank of the species here enumerated. 



Genus PRIONODON, Horsfield, Hodgson, et al. 

 FELIS, Sect. II. 



PJRIONODONTID.E, Horsfield, Zoological Researches in Java, 



1823. 

 LINSANG, Mutter, Gray. 



85. PRIONODON GRACILIS, Vigors and Horsfield. Ap- 

 pendix to Life of Sir T. S. Raffles, 1830. Cantor, Catalogue 

 of Mammalia inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula. 



Viverra ? linsang, Hardwicke, Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. 



p. 235, tab. 24. 



Viverra gracilis, Desmar., Mamm. Suppl. p. 539. 

 Linsang gracilis, Midler, Over de Zoogdieren van den In- 

 dischen Archipel. p. 28. Gray, Mamm. in Br. Mus. 

 p. 48. 

 DELUNDUNG, of the inhabitants of the eastern extremity of 



Java. 

 MACHAN TJONGKOK, of the Sunda or Western Javanese. 



HAS. Java, Sumatra, Siam, and the Peninsula of Malacca. 

 A rare animal. 



I discovered the Delundung during the early period of my researches 



