CARNARIA. 117 
F. cafra. (The Cat of Caffraria.) Stands high on its legs ; 
grey, transversely striped with black. 
F. serval, Buff. XIII, xxxv. (The Serval.) Yellowish, with 
irregular black spots. From Africa. 
F. jaguarondi, Azzara, Voy. pl. 9. (The Jaguarondi.) Body 
long; and altogether of a blackish brown. From the forests of 
South America. 
F. catus, L.3 Buff. VI, i, et seq. (The Domestic Cat.) Is 
originally from the forests of Europe. In its wild state, it is of 
a greyish brown, with darker transverse undulations ; below 
pale; the insides of the thighs and of all the feet, yellowish 5 
three bands on the tail, its inferior third blackish. Ina domes- 
tic state it varies, as is well known, in colours, in the length and 
fineness of the hair, but infinitely less so than the Dog; it is 
also much less submissive and affectionate.(1) 
We might also place in a separate subgenus, a species whose 
head is rounder and shorter, and whose nails are not retractile, 
the Felis jubata, Schreb. 105, and better, Fel. guttata, Id. 105, 
b, (The Hunting Leopard) which is the size of the Leopard, 
but longer bodied, and stands higher; the tail long, annulated 
at the end; the fur fawn colour, mottled with small uniform 
black spots, a black streak reaching from the eye to the angle 
of the mouth. The disposition of this animal differs from that 
of the remainder of the genus in being extremely mild and do- 
cile. The 
AMPHIBIA 
Will form the third and last of the small tribes into which 
we divide the Carnivora. ‘Their feet are so short and so en- 
veloped in the skin, that the only service they can render 
them on land, is to enable them to crawl; but as the inter- 
vals of the fingers are occupied by membranes, they are ex- 
cellent oars; and in fact, these animals pass the greater portion 
of their time in the water; never landing, except for the pur- 
pose of basking in the sun, and suckling their young. Their 
(1) The species, more or less allied to the Cat, are very numerous in the two 
continents ; but all those that are given in catalogues are very far from being au- 
thentic, and sufficiently distinguished from each other. We may, however, con- 
sider as such, those of which we have good figures. The Margay, Buff.; Felis 
tigrina, Gm., Buff. XIII; Schreb. 106.—# el. macrowra, Pr. Max., Brazil, pl. xi.— 
Felis sumatrana, Horsf.—Kel. javanensis, (d.—Fel. torquata, Fred. Cuvy.—Fel. colo- 
eolo, Fred. Cuy. Mammif., &c. 
