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as it is met with in various suitable localities, where not too much 
interfered with by human cultivation, throughout the greater part 
of Africa from Algeria to the Cape Colony, and through the whole 
of the South of Asia from Palestine to China, including all India 
south of the Himalaya, and the islands of Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, 
and Borneo. Fossil bones and teeth, indistinguishable from those 
of existing Leopards, have been found in cave-deposits of Pleisto- 
cene age in Spain, France, Germany, and England. The evidence 
of the former existence of the Leopard in England is described at 
length by Boyd Dawkins and Sanford in their Biifish Pleistocene 
Mammalia 
The Ounce, or Snow Leopard (F. unci), inhabits the highlands 
of Central Asia, from the lofty mountains of Tibet to the southern 
parts of Siberia, at altitudes of from 9000 to 18,000 feet above the 
sea. It is about the size of the common Leopard, but lighter in 
colour, with longer fur, less distinct spots, and a long thick tail. 
Its skull differs in shape from that of all the other Felid ; the 
facial portion being very broad, the nasal bones especially being 
wide and depressed, and the zygomatic arches very strong and 
deep. The Clouded Tiger (F. nebulssa) is a beantifully marked 
species, with elongated head 
and body, long tail, and rather 
short limbs. The canine teeth 
are proportionally longer than 
in any existing member of 
the genus. It is thoroughly 
arboreal, and is found in the 
forests of South-East Asia and 
the islands of Sumatra, Java, 
Borneo, and Formosa. 
F. serval, the Serval, from 
South Africa, is yellow with 
black spots, and has a short 
tail and large ears. Numer- 
ous smaller species called Tiger 
Cats and Wild Cats, of which 
the Oriental F. marmorata wae eas : a 
(Fig. 227) isa good example, Fic. 237.—The Marbled Cat (Felis marmorata). 
From Blanford, Mammalia of British India, p. 74, 
are found throughout the 
warmer parts of Asia and 
Africa. The Wild Cat of Europe, F. cafus, still inhabits the 
mountainous and wooded parts of Great Britain. 
The Catire Cat (F. caffra*), of Africa and Southern Asia, was the 
species held in veneration by the ancient Ezyptians, and immense 
1 Monographs of the Paleontographica! Society, 1872. 
2 syn. F. imacrocelis. ° Syn. F, maniculata and ealigata. 
after Elliot. 
