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it : he also met with another specimen in the Berlin 

 Museum, and made it known to the Prussian pro- 

 fessors. Landseer has executed a masterly etching of 

 it, from the major's drawing, which will be found in 

 the work above referred to. 



Size of the wild cat. — General proportions shorter 

 and heavier than those of the true ocelot. The upper 

 parts and sides reddish yellow, the lower white ; tem- 

 ples ochrey. Several rows of black spots converge from 

 the ears to the forehead. On the shoulders, back, side, 

 rump, and hams, are long chain-like streaks of black 

 and reddish brown intermixed. The belly and throat 

 have black streaks ; and the tail has imperfect black 

 rings. 



The (Jiiati Tjger-Cat. 



Felis Wiedii, .Sc/«/ir/. Chati, F. Cuvier. (Fig. 20,) 



If, as Cuvier sup]>oses, the species of tiger-cat, called 



by his brother the 

 Chati, is the same as 

 that discovered by 

 Prince Maximilian of 

 Xeuwied, in Brazil, 

 and named, in his 

 honour, by Sching, 

 that name should, 

 without doubl, be re- 

 tained ; not, however, havinj.^ the means of establishing 

 this supposed identity, we shall confine our notice to the 

 description of Frederick Cuvier's Chati, and which he 

 hasfigured in his folio lithographic work on quadrupeds. 

 It is stated to be more than one fourth less than the 

 Felis mills of Desmarest, and is even less than the com- 

 mon wild cat: the head measures only four inches and 

 a half, the body eighteen, and the tail ten ; the height 

 being eleven inches. 



The ground colour of the fur is brownish grey, paler 



