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Wiedii, after an individual which had been communicated 

 to him by the Prince Maximilian." 



The Chati and the Felis Macrourus are very different, as 

 the comparison of our two figures sufficiently evinces. 



We shall now recross the Atlantic, and proceed to the 

 Felinse of the Old World, which bear some analogy to the 

 small group of Ocelots of the New. 



We shall abbreviate the Baron's observation on the Serval 

 or Tiger-Cat of the Furriers, (F. Serval, Gm.,) which, by 

 the longitudinal bands of the neck, seems to announce the 

 following species. 



Perrault described it {Mem. del' Acad. t. iii. pi. 13,) from 

 a very fat specimen under the name of Chat Pard, which 

 Hernandez had given to the Tlatco-ocelot, and again, in 

 Part III. of the same volume, under the name of Panther, 

 much more exactly. Buffon named it Serval, applying very 

 arbitrarily a passage of Vincent Marie on an Indian Cat 

 less than the Civet, and which assuredly cannot be said of 

 the Serval. 



" The fact is, that the skins of the Tiger-Cats of the 

 Furriers come to us by hundreds from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, and after the information I have received from mer- 

 chants, I have no longer any doubt," says the Baron, "on 

 the African habitat of this animal ; lam therefore con- 

 vinced that M. d'Azara was wrong when he thought he 

 recognised his Mbaracaya in one of the Tiger-Cats of the 

 museum." 



As we give a figure of this species from M. F. Cuvier, 

 we shall not detail its specific characters, except to observe, 

 that the ground colour of the fur is bright yellow, more or 

 less gray. Round the lips, the throat, the under part of 

 the body, and the interior of the thighs, is whitish. 



The bands and spots are larger or smaller, and more or 

 less numerous in different individuals. They are in general 



