1867.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE FELID^. 397 



perhaps the errors of the artist. Indeed it is doubtful if the figure 

 is not a copy of an Indian drawing, like several of the animals figured 

 in that work, said to have been received from M. Duvaucel. I 

 cannot agree with Mr. Blyth in thinking that F. torquata is the 

 same as F. ornata. 



Mr. Hodgson sent from Nepaul a very large specimen, which 

 agrees with the typical specimen of i*', inconspicuua in its most essen- 

 tial characters, but is much larger, and the waved bands are more 

 broken into spots ; these spots are all nearly of the same form. The 

 liead and body of the stuffed specimen is 25 inches, and the tail 

 1 J inches long. In the list of Mr. Hodgson's specimens he asks 

 "is it a Tame Cat?" p. 6. Mr. Hodgson, in his ^IS. list, called 

 it Felis viven'iceps. There is a third, smaller specimen in the British 

 Museum, received through Capt. Boys from India. 



The second, which varies from pale fulvous to grey, is the Felis 

 maniculata of Riippell (Zool. Atlas, t. 1), from various parts of 

 Africa. There are several specimens of this species in the British 

 Museum. The largest and darkest, being grey with darker bands, 

 is a specimen from Tangiers, received from M. Verreaux, the body 

 and head 24, and the tail 14 inches long ; the darker bands are very 

 indistinct. There is a second example, not quite so large, with bands 

 darker, that lived several years in the Zoological Gardens, and was 

 sent from Tunis by Sir Thomas Reade — and a smaller one, similar 

 in colour, also from the Zoological Gardens, but without any special 

 habitat attached, and a dark grey kitten from Kordofan. 



Two other specimens are pale yellowish, shghtly grizzled, with the 

 streak and spot of the body rather darker yellow, and the rings on the 

 end of the tail are black. One of these, brought from Macassar by 

 Mr. Wallace, is rather darker than the other, and has the bands on 

 the legs nearly black, like the Tunisian specimen. The other, from 

 Kordofan, is rather paler, and the bands on the legs, like those on the 

 body, are yellow. 



Very nearly allied to these, and probably only a variety, is a small 

 nearly white Cat, marked with pale yellow stripes, sent from Egypt 

 by Mr. Christie, which I described in the 'Magazine of Natural 

 History' for 1837 under the name of Felis pulchella. It differs 

 greatly from all the other specimens of F. maniculata in the very 

 large size of the ears ; but it resembles them so closely that I am 

 almost inclined to believe that it may be only a very pale variety of 

 that species. The size of the ears may have been produced by the 

 negligence of the stuffer ; but that can only be decided by the exami- 

 nation of fresh specimens. Mr. Blyth thinks that this specimen is 

 ordy "an Egyptian variety of the Common Cat" (P. Z. S. 18G3, 

 p. 184, note); but I cannot agree with that theor3^ 



The three large specimens in the British Museum of these Cats 

 come from South Africa. The largest was received from M. Ver- 

 reaux, the next largest from the Zoological Society's Museum under 

 the name of Felis caffra (Felis nigripes of Burchell), the other from 

 Dr. Andrew Smith as Felis cuffra. 



The first two of these are dark grey, with distinct dark, blackish 



