CLOUDED TIGER. 



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first authority upon these subjects in this country. We 

 shall give its peculiar distinctions in his own words, 

 and trust that, ere long, we shall be able to record 

 something more of the native habits of the ocelots in 

 general than we can at present communicate. 



'' The size is about that of the Fells mitis of Desma- 

 rest (Ocelot No. 1.), but the rufous colour spreads over 

 a larger space on the back and hams, while the spots 

 on the shoulders are more numerous and smaller. 

 There is one large spot on the cheek, and four or five 

 small, open, chain-like spots on the hamsi There are no 

 specks within the large streaks." All the foregoing 

 species have been admirably etched by Mr. T. Landseer, 

 from the original drawings of major Smith. 



The Clouded Tiger. 



Fells nebulosa, H. Smith, cited in Griff. Carnivorre, p. 37. 

 Nebulose or Clouded Tiger, Griff\ Cuv. ii. 499. Fells 

 nebulosa, Griff. Syti. No. 420. Felis microcelis, Ttm- 

 minck, Horsf., Zool. Journ. ii. 542. Rimau-Dahan, of the 

 Sumatrese. ( Fig. 18.) 



The Clouded Tiger of major Smith, we shall consider, 

 at present, as the same 

 species with that called 

 Rimau-Dahan by the 

 inhabitants of Sumatra. 

 And, with this impres- 

 sion, we shall condense 

 the interesting account 

 of its manners given by sir Stamford Raffles and Dr. 

 Horsiieid, in their notice of the rimau-dahan. 



The mature size of this new and very remarkable 

 tiger has not been correctly ascertained, since the indi- 

 vidual examined and measured by Dr. Horsfield seems 

 only to have acquired about two thirds of its mature 

 size and bulk : if this calculation be correct, the full- 

 grown animal would measure about four feet from the 

 nose to the base of the tail ; the tail itself would be 



