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the nose and the anteal base of the ear ; muzzle or nude 

 extremity of the nose small, rounded, distinct, slightly 

 grooved above and in front, and having the nares opened 

 anteally and laterally: lips adpressed, and furnished with 

 very long but rather soft mustachios : smaller tufts above the 

 eye and on the cheek ; none on the chin : ears fully develop- 

 ed, placed high up, ovoid, rounded at the tips ; the helix 

 considerably attached to the scull anteriorly, and furnished 

 posteriorly with a simple fissure ; softly furred behind and 

 on the margin interiorly ; the rest of the interior nude and 

 hid by the longer hair springing from the fore part of the 

 helix : neck and body both considerably elongated and slen- 

 der : limbs short, fine, feline, but the thumbs rather nearer 

 to the other digits than in Felis, and a corresponding digit to 

 the hinder extremities. Talons very acute, and entirely 

 sheathed and concealed. Tail equal to the body and neck, 

 perfectly cylindric, and furred like the rest of the animal's 

 skin. 



" Anal pouch" very apparently present, but the exact 

 character of it not determinable ; tongue aculeated back- 

 wards. The colours of the animal are very rich and beauti- 

 ful, resembling closely, and no way yielding in beauty to 

 those of the leopard, the ground being an uniform rich 

 pardine fulvous, and the marks jet black. The marks too 

 are almost wholly rounded as in the leopard ; but they are 

 full or entire, that is, have not open centres ; and upon the 

 neck (superior) they take that linear character which is no- 

 where seen in the leopard : lips, chin, inferior surface of 

 head, neck, and body, together with the toes, immaculate: 

 bridge of nose and superior surface of head mixed with 

 dusky, but no distinct, marks : a vague spot or two on the 

 cheeks : ears outside black ; inside pale : immediately be- 

 hind them arise two unbroken lines proceeding to a little 

 beyond the shoulders, and two more below these proceeding 

 brokenly to them only; rest of the upper and lateral sur- 



