FELIS CATUS. 



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sonable in the suggestion of a Cat now found only in Africa having once ranged over Europe, 

 since the Spotted Hyaena, the Hippopotamus, and the Panther were members of our 

 Pleistocene Fauna, as well as being now associated with F. caffer in Africa. 



In the following table we have represented the relation of the fossil lower jaws to those 

 of the Wild Cat andFelis caffer. The measurements are taken in inches : 



Measurements. 



Fossil 

 Bleadon. 



Schmer- 

 ling's fig. 



F. Caffer. 



Coll. Surg., 



4606. 



F. Caffer. 



Brit. Mus., 



857 A. 



F. Catus. 



Scotland. 



Coll. Surg., 



F. Catus. 

 Germany. 

 Brit. Mus. 



Length of molar series 



Ml. Length 



Postero-transverse diameter 



Antero-transverse diameter 



0-91 



0-35 



0-16 



0-15 



0-11 



0-34? 



0-26 



014 



0-20 



0-53 



0-22 



0-45 



0-92 

 0-36 



0-13 



0-25 



0-20 

 0-54 



0-45 



0-91 

 0-34 

 0-16 

 015 

 0-11 

 035 

 0-26 

 0-15 

 0-19 

 0-56 

 0-23 



0-92 

 0-33 

 0-14 

 0-13 



o-io 



0-30 

 0-26 

 0-13 

 0-17 

 0-52 

 0-21 



0-82 

 0-32 

 013 

 0-14 

 0-09 

 0-28 

 0-20 



o-io 



0-18 

 040 

 025 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



74 

 29 

 11 

 10 

 08 

 26 

 20 

 10 

 15 

 39 

 22 



Height 



PM4. Length 



pjvla. Length 



Transverse 



Height 



Depth of jaw at Ml 



Thickness ,, „ 



Depth at PM4 









The fragments of ulna (fig. 8) and of femur (fig. 7) of a large Cat from Bleadon Cave 

 may most probably be referred to the F. caffer, since they were obtained from the same 

 place as the jaw which we have just described. They may, however, belong to the 

 Wild Cat. 



§ 3. F. catus. — The lower jaws and bones of the Wild Cat of Europe, which is now 

 so rapidly becoming extinct in Great Britain, have been discovered in the Cave of Kirkdale 

 by Dr. Buckland, and in that of Kent's Hole by the Rev. J. MacEnery, and differ 

 in no respect from those of the living representative. If that figured PI. XXIV, fig. 8, 

 be examined, it will be seen that in its slender form it contrasts with that figured 

 6, 6', 6". The lower jaw (PI. XXIV, 9, 9') is from the Brickearth of Grays 

 Thurroch, and is in the Collection of Mr. Wickham Flower : its external aspect has 

 been figured in the 'British Fossil Mammals,' p. 172. There are no points presented 

 by these fragments which are worthy of a detailed notice. 



The remains of the Wild Cat have been obtained from several of the localities in Great 

 Britain, and it lived in our country from the age represented by the Brickearths of the 

 Thames Valley to the present day. 



