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IX. — Notes on Pardalina Warwickii, Gray^ Felis guigna, 

 Molina^ and Felis Geoffroyi, U'Orhigny. By Dr. J. E. 

 Gray, F.R.S. &c. 



Many years ago there was in the Surrey Zoological Gardens an 

 animal shown as the "Himalaya Cat," which is figured by 

 Colonel Hamilton Smith in Jardine's 'Naturalist's Library,' but 

 not very characteristically, under the name oi Felis liimalayanay 

 Warwick. When the animal died it was preserved in the 

 British Museum, and recorded in tlie ' List of ]\Iammalia in 

 the British Museum,' published in 1842, under the name of 

 Leojyardus Mmalayamis. Mr. Blyth, in the " Species of the 

 genus Felis''^ (P. Z. S. 1863, p. 184), puts F. himalayana of 

 Warwick as a synonym of Felis viverrina, Bennett, and, not 

 recollecting that Warwick's cat and the one in the ]Museum 

 were the same specimen, he puts in " not of Gray ; " and in a 

 note he says, " F. himalayana is perhaps F. celidoy aster of 

 Temminck," which he gives as a synonym of Felis viverrina^ 

 Bennett. In fact the synonym a are the regular confusion of a 

 compiler, which is easily to be understood and apologized for 

 in Mr. Blyth's case, but should be a caution to compilers. 



When this cat was alive it was just the time that we began 

 to receive fine skins of animals from the Himalayas ; and there 

 was an inclination of the dealers to give Himalaya as the 

 habitat of animals of which they did not know whence they 

 came, as animals from that country were interesting and 

 fetched a good price ; but numerous collectors and sportsmen 

 who have searched that country assure me that the cat is not 

 found there, or at least has not occurred to them ; and it has 

 been suggested by Mr. Blyth and otliers that it may be an 

 inhabitant of South America ; but I have not seen any speci- 

 mens from there. 



Li the 'Proc. Zool. Soc' for 1867, on account of the length 

 of the brain-case of the skull, and shortness of the face and 

 convexity of the forehead, I formed for this cat a genus under 

 the name of Pardalina^ and gave it the specific name of 

 T-Farunc/^//', because the name oi hi)nalayanus .mv^xi lead to 

 misconception, and figured the skull (P. Z. S. 1867, p. 267, 

 fig. 4 ; and Cat. Carniv. p. 15, fig. 4) 



D'Orbigny and Gervais, in the ' Bull, Soc. Philomat. Paris,' 

 1844, p. 40, and in the 'Voy. Amer. Merid.' p. 21, t. xiv. 

 (animal), &t. xiii. fig. 1 (skull), figure a cat from Rio Negro, 

 in the pampas of Buenos Ayres, under tlie name of Felis 

 Gcojfroyi^ whicli they comi)are to the Ocelot Chati and ]\rargay, 

 and to the Felis yuiyna of j\Iolina, which I had not thought of 

 comparing with it when I wrote thepa])cr in tlie 'Proceedings,' 

 not thinking it likely that a cat from India and one from 



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