404 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE FELIDiE. [Apr. 11, 



Tiger Cat called F. macroura. There is a very large series of spe- 

 cimens of the long-tailed species in the British Museum (two Chatis 

 and several Margays) from different localities. And if there were 

 not so many offering such different variations of the first species in 

 the collection (1 had only a few selected specimens to describe from), 

 I should have been inclined to sejiarate them into more than one 

 species; indeed, in 1842, when we had only four or five specimens, 

 I did name one in the 'List of Mammalia' as a distinct species 

 under the name of Leopardus tigrinoides. 



These three species may be easily distinguished from each other 

 by the kind and colour of the fur, and the colour and length of the 

 tail. Thus F. macroura and F. mitis have soft bright fulvous fur, 

 and tail distinctly ringed ; and F. tigrina has a harsher grizzled fur, 

 and the tail marked with scries of dark spots, not forming distinct 

 rings. They may be characterized thus : — 



1 . Felis macroura, Pr. Max. Abbild. t. . The Kuichua. 



F. wiedii, Schinz. 



"F. brasiliensis, Cuvier." 



Fur soft, bright fulvous, black-spotted ; spots variable in shape 

 and size, often with a pale centre ; tail elongate, cylindrical, longer 

 than the body, with from eight to ten broad, well-marked, often 

 interrupted, black rings, and a black tip. 



Var. Paler, spots larger. 



Leopardus tigrinoides, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 1842, p. 42. 



Hab. Brazil. 



2. Fei.is mitis, F. Cuvier, Mamm. Lithogr. t. . The Chati. 

 F. onca, Schreb. t. 102. 



F. chati, H. Smith. 



Fur soft, bright fulvous, black-spotted ; spots variable in size and 

 disposition, often with a pale centre ; tail cylindrical, rather tapering 

 at the end, nearly the length of the body without the head, with six 

 well-marked, broad, sometimes interrupted black rings, and a black tip. 



Hab. Mexico ? Paraguay ? 



3. Felis tigrina, Schreb. t. lOG, from Margay, Buffon, H. N. 

 xiii. t. 38. The Margay. 



Fur rather harsh, dull, grizzled, varied with black spots and rings 

 varying in size and form ; tail moderate, nearly as long as the body, 

 cylindrical, rather thick, truncated at the end, marked with small 

 black spots often confluent but not forming continuous rings. 



Hab. South America. 



There is in the British Museum a Cat that was formerly alive in 

 the Surrey Zoological Gardens, and was there called the Himalayan 

 Cat, and which, in the 'List of Mammalia in the British Museum,' 

 published in 1842, I called Leopardus himalay anus. This animal is 

 figured, from the specimen at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, in Jar- 

 dine's 'Naturalist's Library ' as Felis himalayanus, Warwick. The 



