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ject on learning that I was investigating the group ; and I take this 

 opportunity of expressing my thanks for his kindness and assistance 

 duriug the time I was at work in the magnificent museum over which 

 he so worthily presides. 



In the same monograph already mentioned, M. Temminck has 

 also described a Cat, which he procured at the sale of Mr. Bullock's 

 collection in London, as F. celidoyaster, the habitat being then 

 unknown; but in the 'Esquisses Zoologiques,' published in 1853, 

 p. 86, he redescribes the species from a specimen received from the 

 coast of Guinea. This supposed distinct species, however, proves to 

 be only a light-coloured variety of Temminck's Felis aurata from 

 the same locality, as there is in the museum a flat skin, also from 

 the Gold Coast, of a Cat which is intermediate between the two 

 extremes deemed distinct by Temminck. In the 'Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History' (1838), vol. i. p. 27, Dr. J. E. Gray 

 described a Cat from the Gambia as F. neglecta. It was founded 

 on a flat skin wanting the head. By the kindness of Prof. Schlegel 

 I have been enabled to bring the type of F. celidogaster to London, 

 and compare it with Dr. Gray's neglecta, and I find that the two 

 are identical and cannot be separated. The synonymy, then, of the 

 two species described respectively by Temminck and Hodgson from 

 the Gold Coast and Nepal will be as follows : — 



Felis aurata. 



Felis aurata, Temm. Mon. Mamm. 1827, p. 120; Vig. Zool. 

 Journ. vol. ii. p. 530. 



Felis rutila, Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1842, p. 130; Gray, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, pp. 272, 395; id. Cat. Cam. Mam. 1869, 

 p. 23. sp. 14. 



Felis celidogaster, Temm. Mon. Mamm. 1827, p. 140 ; id. Es- 

 quiss. Zool. 1853, p. 86 (light variety). 



Felis neglecta, J. E. Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1838, vol. i. 

 p. 27 ; Sclat. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 246 (light variety). 



Felis chalybeata, H. Smith, Griff. Anim. King. 1827, vol. ii. 

 p. 474. pi. (light variety). 



General colour above red, indistinctly spotted on the sides, spots 

 small in size ; beneath white, spotted with blackish brown ; tail red 

 above, white beneath, unspotted ; no white marks upon the face, 

 which is of the same red colour as the back a:id sides. 



Hab. Gold Coast of Africa. 



Felis moormensis. 



Felis moormensis, Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 10. 



Leopardus auratus, J. E. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 265 ; 

 id. Cat. Cam. Mam. 1869, p. 12. 



Felis aurata, Sclat. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 815, pi. 36, et 1868, 

 p. 647; Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 185. 



Felis temminckii, Vigors and Horsf. Zool. Journ. vol. iii. p. 451 

 (jun.). 



