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area from the shoulders to the base of the tail is chiefly black, consisting 

 ofarregular narrow stripes and small spots of black set in a general 

 ground color of reddish brown. The sides are paler, with the ground 

 color pale fulvous gray mottled with small spots of black encircled 

 with rusty brown; at the lower edge of the flanks the ground color 

 passes into whitish, and into clear white on the ventral surface, blotched 

 with large spots of mixed brown and black on the flanks and blackish 

 on the median area below. 



The other specimen (No. 26601) is similar on the head and nape, 

 but from the hind neck posteriorly the amount of black is inconspicu- 

 ous, consisting mainly of a grizzle of black hairs in place of stripes and 

 distinct spots, mixed with reddish brown. The gray spots and streaks 

 on the sides are lighter clearer gray, and the intervening spaces are 

 dark reddish brown varied with scattered flecks of blackish. The 

 ventral surface, the feet, tail, head, and throat markings are similar 

 in both. The feet are yellowish finely mottled with blackish. The 

 median third of the under surface of the tail is yellowish gray; the sides 

 and dorsal surface clearer gray with narrow half rings of black, wider 

 than the gray interspaces, and a blackish tip. 



The young kitten was apparently only a few days old when 

 taken, and is in the soft woolly first pelage. The general color above 

 is dull rusty brown, strongly streaked with blackish; below grayish 

 white, barred on the breast and spotted on the belly with blackish 

 brown. 



The adult skulls measure, respectively, as follows: Total length, 

 91, 87.5; basal length, 78, 75; basilar length, 76, 73; palatal length, 

 35, 34; zygomatic breadth, 60, 59; greatest width of braincase, 41.3, 

 40; least distance between carnassials, 22, 22; length of carnassial, 

 10, 10 mm. 



These specimens seem clearly referable to F. chinensis, as described 

 by Swinhoe (P. Z. S., 1870, p. 629), Milne-Edwards (Rech. Mamm., 

 1868-1874, pp. 216-220, pi. xxi% fig. 2), and Bonhote (Ann. and Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (7), XI, April, 1903, p. 376), and probably of Gray (Charls- 

 worth's Mag. Nat. Hist., I, 1837, 577). Felis ricketti Bonhote differs 

 in larger size and in the ground color of the upperparts. F. scripta 

 Milne-Edwards is also a near ally, but differs somewhat in markings. 



1 6. Felis macrocelis H or s field. 

 Felis macrocelis SwiNHOE/JP. Z. S., 1870, p. 228. 



Mr. Swinhoe (/. c.) states that he was shown a skin of this species 

 in the mountains of Hainan said to have been " procured in that neigh- 



