39f) DK. .1. E. GRAY ON THE FKLID^. [Apr. 1 1, 



albidus, auriculis latis intus albidis, supra nigerrimis cum lunula 

 iiivea ; dorso et lateribus trihus vittis nigris nee non lineis formatis 

 numerosissimis maculis atris ; cauda longa, rufescenti-grisea, nigro 

 niaculata ; facie rufa, duabus liueis et uaso aterrimis ; rostro albo ; 

 pedibus rufo-griseo punctatis." The description and the figure do not 

 agree with any of the three Cats from Africa in the British Museum. 



The Felis neglecta, like the Serval, has no dark streak on the 

 cheek, which is so generally found in Cats. In Lesson's figure only 

 one throat-streak (the upper one in most other Cats) is marked, the 

 second streak mentioned in the description being from the side of 

 the forehead to the end of the nose. The tail in Lesson's figure is 

 longer in proportion to the body than the tail of the Serval, or of 

 any of the three African Cats here described ; and the belly is not 

 white, as it is in all of them and in F. celidogaster of Temminck. 

 In some respects the Cat agrees with Felis viverrina of Bennett from 

 India (can there be any mistake in the African habitat ?) ; but the 

 streaks on the side of the face are different from those of that Cat, 

 which has two in the usual situation ; indeed the streak in Lesson's 

 figure is so unlike the streak in anj? Cat that I have seen that I 

 almost doubt whether the artist has correctly represented it as going 

 from the orbit to the middle of the front edge of the ear. 



GUEPARDA GUTTATA, jr. (PI. XXV.) 



The young Hunting Leopard {Gueparda guttata) I do not recol- 

 lect to have seen described. It is covered with long soft hair, of a 

 dark blackish brown colour, on the limbs, sides, and beneath, and 

 very obscurely spotted ; the head, back of the neck, the back, and 

 the upper surface of the tail are pale brown ; back of ears black ; an 

 angular line from the front of the orbit to the angle of the mouth 

 dark brown ; the lips, chin, and sides of the nose white. 



Hah. Cape of Good Hope. 



There are two Cats in the British Museum (one from India and 

 the other from Africa) which are peculiar for having the body marked 

 with transverse or, rather, perpendicular bands which are more or 

 less broken into spots ; and they have more marked, wider, and black 

 bands across the uj)per part of the fore and hind legs. The tail, 

 which is not quite so long as the body, is of the same colour as the 

 back, and has some narrow black rings near the tip, which is black. 



The grey species comes from India. There is a single specimen 

 of it in the British Museum, which in the ' List of Mammalia,' pub- 

 lished in 1842, I named the Waved Cat {Leopardus inconsjncuus), 

 p. 42, referring it to the Felis torquata (^Chat de Nej>aul, F. Cuvier, 

 Mamm. Lithogr. ii. t.) with doubt, because the tail of that species 

 is represented as of the same colour as the back, with a series of 

 triangular spots forming half bands on the lower surface for the 

 whole length, and there is only one streak (the upper one) on the 

 cheek, while our specimen, like almost all the species of Cats, has 

 two well-marked streaks. As no specimen like the figure has been 

 received from India, I am now inclined to believe that it is intended 

 to represent the Cat in the Museum, and tliat the diflFcrences are 



