Miscellaneous. 475 



The original experiment of applying a mercurial gauge to the 

 grape-vine, first tried by the Ilev. Stephen Hales, of England, one 

 hundred and fifty years ago, was repeated May 9th, and a pressure 

 of 49-52 feet of water obtained May 24th. This is 6| feet higher 

 than, was observed by Hales. The peculiar features of the pressure 

 of the vine-sap are: — its lateness in the season; its apparent inde- 

 pendence of the weather ; its uniform and moderate rise, day and 

 night, to its maximum; its very gradual decline to zero without 

 any marked oscillations ; and its constant and almost unvarying 

 suction of from 4-5 to (vo feet of water, manifested from June 20th 

 to July 20th, when the observations ceased. — From the Eleventh 

 Annual R'port of the Massachusetts Agricultural Coll 'ye, January 

 1874, 



The Bogota Cat (Felis pardinoides, Gray). 

 By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.E.S. &c. 



In the ' Annals ' for 1874, xiii. p. 51, 1 gave the reasons for differing 

 from Mr. Elliot's opinion that the cat I named Fdis pardinoides 

 in the British Museum, received from the Zoological Society as 

 coming from India, was the same as Felis Geoffroyi. At the same 

 time I observed, " the Indian habitat has not been confirmed ; and 

 the species has a very South-American aspect." 



The British Museum has received, from Mr. Edward Gerrard, a cat 

 from Bogota that I have no doubt is the same species as the typical 

 specimen of Felis pardinoides ; but it differs from it in being a nearly 

 adult specimen, as is proved by the examination of the skull ; and 

 it has a more fulvous tint, and the fur is softer ; but this may only 

 depend upon the age and season in which it was killed. 



This species of South-American spotted eat has the small head and 

 much the character of Felis tnacroura ; but the tail is rather taper- 

 ing and not so long ; instead of having the few broad black rings of 

 that species, it has a larger number of narrow black rings, which 

 are interrupted on the lower side, and these rings on the hinder 

 half of the tail are broader and more distinct than those of the basal 

 half. The spots on the body are much more numerous ; and those 

 on the hinder parts of the sides are pale, surrounded behind with 

 an imperfect ring of small black spots. 



The Habitat of Pelargopsis gigautea. 

 To the Editors of the Annals and Mag izine of Natural History. 



21 Opernring, 4. Stock, 



Vienna, 23/T)/74. 



Dear Sirs, — In the note on the " Habitat of Pelargopsis gigantea " 

 in your Journal (^lay 1S74), line of the text, is a misprint in tlio 

 fifth word. It must be " Jolo," and not " Tolo." 



You will oblige me by rectifying this in your next number, as this 

 misprint is disagreeable in a note wherein I correct the statement of 

 another. Yours very truly, 



A. B. Mkykr. 

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