482 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



about thirty inches long, and the tail nine or ten inches. 

 Their height from fifteen to twenty inches. 



It is manifest, says our author, that the pretended Ca- 

 racal of Barbary, without pencils of hairs to the ears, with 

 stripes and black spots which Buffon describes from Bruce, 

 is no other than this Serval. The Cinereous Cat of Pennant 

 and Shaw he also refers to the gray variety of the Serval. 



Buffon refers to the Serval his New Spain Cat. It was 

 of a bluish-ash colour, spotted with black in pencils. If 

 this notice which was sent to Buffon by an anonymous author 

 be genuine, the species must be very distinct. Pennant refers 

 this species to Seba, f. ii. pi. 48, which is no other than a 

 bad figure of a very young Panther or Leopard. 



The Mar gay of Buffon , (Felis Tigrina, Gm. ,) has the lines 

 and spots of the head similar to the Chati of Cuvier. The 

 upper part of the body is yellowish-gray, the under part 

 white ; four black lines pass from the vertex to the shoul- 

 ders, and then change into series of long streaks. The 

 spots on the flanks are long and oblique ; on the shoulders 

 there is one vertical ; on the crupper and limbs they are 

 oval and scattered ; on the inner sides of the limbs are some 

 transverse bands ; the feet are gray and spotless ; the tail 

 has some irregular unequal rings, to the number of twelve 

 or fifteen ; the middle of the lateral spots is paler than the 

 edges. It measures about twenty inches in length, and the 

 tail is about eight or nine. 



The individual described by Buffon came from Cayenne. 

 The Brasilian word Margaia, is the root of Buffon's appel- 

 lative Margay. 



D'Azara describes, says the Baron Cuvier, an animal 



under the name of Mbaracaya, which the Baron for a long 



time took to be the Serval, but which he now believes to be 



an adult Margay. 



The Kenouk or Javan Cat of Dr. Horsfield, comes next 



