MAMMALS OK BORN'KO. 1 9 



FELIS BENGALENSIS. 



jFeh's be7i£-ii/c'/isi's, K:vv, Animal Kingdom, p. i;i (1792); 

 Blyth, P.Z.S. 1863, p. 184. 



This animal is about the size of a domestic cat or rather 

 smaller, but with longer legs. Tail rather less than half the 

 length of the head and body together, sometimes perhaps not 

 more than one third, but some measurements give more than 

 one half. Ears moderate, rounded at the tip. Pupil circular 

 (perhaps elliptical in strong light). The skull is rather 

 elongated, low and convex, orbit incomplete behind. The 

 inner lobe of the upper flesh-tooth small. Anterior upper 

 premolar rarely deficient. 



Colour, ground colour above pale fulvous, varying from 

 rufous to greyish, below white, ornamented throughout with 

 numerous more or less elongate, well defined spots, either 

 black throughout, or especially on the sides, each spot partly 

 black and partly brown, the two colours passing into each 

 other. The fur is brown at the base, and many of the fulvous 

 hairs have white tips, producing a grizzled appearance on the 

 ground colour. The sizes of the spots are very variable. 

 Dimensions : head and body 24 to 26 inches, tail 11 to 12 or 

 more. 



This pretty little cat is found in the low country, and 

 on the mountains to the height of 3,000 feet. It is constantly 

 trapped by the natives, and it is very fond of stealing fowls, 

 going into the villages and taking chickens from beneath the 

 houses. The Dyak name is ' Kuching Batu.' It usually 

 lives amongst the rocks and in holes of trees. 



FELIS TEMMINCKI. 



/^L'//'s tcininiiicki. Vigors & Horsf. Zool. Journ. iii, p. 4^1 

 (1828) ; 



Size rather less than that of F. iichulosa. Tail abcuit two 

 thirds the length of the head and body, almost the same 

 thickness throughout. Caudal vertebra 22. Ears short, 

 rounded. Fur moderate length, dense, rather harsh. Colour, 

 deep ferruginous or chestnut, darker (bay) along the back, 

 paler on the sides, still paler and whitish below ; chin and 

 lower surface of tail to the tip white, the tip above is dusky. 

 There are some round dusky spots on the breast, between and 

 behind the axils, and, in some specimens, on the inside of the 

 fore limbs, and less distinct markings, forming imperfect bands, 

 on the throat. The lower side of the tarsi and feet are brown. 

 The markings on the face are peculiar and somewhat variable ; 

 the most conspicuous is a ho izontal white or buff cheek stripe, 

 sometimes edged with black, from below the eye to behind the 

 gape ; a whitish band inside each eye ; and occasionally 

 curved lines running back from above the eye to between the 



