50 Dr. J. E. Gray on certain Species of Fells. 



South America were the same ; but Dr. Sclater (P. Z. S. 1870, 

 p. 796) observes : — " The so-called FeJis Wancichii being 

 now dead, I have been able to examine it more carefully, and 

 find it to belong to a well-known South-American species, 

 Felis Geoffwiji of D'Orbigny and Gervais ;" and this theory 

 is adopted by Mr. Elliot {V.Z. S. 1872, p. 203). 



The specimen of P. Warwickii wndi i\\Q figure oiF. Oeoffroyi 

 bear a general resemblance, but they appear to me very dif- 

 ferent. Tlie specimen in the Museum is much more spotted, 

 and the spots of the back are smaller and more numerous ; the 

 throat, chest, and belly are largely spotted. The throat is said 

 to be whitish in M. d'Orbigny's description ; and the belly of 

 of his figure is not spotted at all ; but this might be a variation, 

 though I should not think it probable. 



]\I. Gervais figures the skull of the South-American cat ; 

 and when his figure and the figure of the skull of Pardalina 

 Warwickii are compared, and his figure with the skull itself, 

 though they agree in the length of the brain-case, they differ 

 greatly in the form and outline of the face, and especially in 

 the outline of the lower jaw ; so that I have little doubt that 

 they are distinct, though both may belong to the genus 

 Pardalina. 



Molina, in his work on Chili, described a species imder the 

 name of Felis guigna. MM. d'Orbigny and Gervais asked, 

 "Mais qu'est-ce que c'est que le Felis guignaT^ Dr. A. 

 P]ii]i]5pi has described and figured this species and its skull 

 in Wiegmann's 'Archiv f. Naturg.' 1873, p. 8, t. ii. (animal), 

 & t. iii. figs. 2 & 3 (skull). The figure of the animal nearly 

 agrees with the figure of Felis Geoffroyi^ and differs from the 

 specimen of Pardalina Warivickii in the Museum in the few- 

 ness of the spots on the neck, and in thechestand belly (according 

 to both figure and description) being Avhite and spotless. The 

 skull figured is that of a young animal, and appears to differ 

 only in age from that figured by D'Orbigny and Gervais ; and 

 there can be no doubt that Felis Geoffroyi of D'Orbigny and 

 Gervais is the same as F. guigna of Molina and Philippi. 



Therefore the synonyma of the species will run thus : — 



Pardalina Warwickii. 

 Belly closely spotted. 



Felis htmalayanus, Warwick, Jardiiie's Naturalist's Library, t. xxiv. 

 Pardalina Wa^-wickii, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 257, fig. (skull) ; 



Cat. Camiv. p. 15, fig. (skull). 

 Felis Geoffroyi, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 79Gj Elliot, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 203. 



Hah. Unknown. 



