10 i FELID^. 



seem to be common. It frequents reeds near water; and besides fish, 

 preys upon AmpuUarice, Unios, and various birds. It is a fierce untameable 

 creature, remarkably beautiful, but which has a very disagreeable smell." 

 On this Mr. Blyth observes, " I have not remarked the latter, though I 

 have had several big toms quite tame, and ever found this to be a par- 

 ticularly tameable species. A newly caught male killed a tame young 

 leopardess of mine about double his size." The Eev. Mr. Baker, writing 

 of its habits in Malabar says, " that it often kills pariah dogs ; and that 

 he has known instances of slave children (infants) being taken from their 

 huts by this cat ; also young calves." 



It was considered the same as Temminck's F. celidogaster by Gray, in 

 which he was followed by Blyth in his Catalogue ; but in his late Synopsis, 

 he states that celidogaster, Temminck, is an African species. F. himcday- 

 anus apud Gray, remarks Mr. Blyth, 1. c, is perhaps true celidogaster. 



109. Felis marmorata. 



Martin. — Blyth, Synops, 8. — F. charltoni, Gray. — Blyth, Cat. 

 176. — F. ogiUni, Hodgson; probably also F. duvancelli, Hodgson, 

 and Leopardus dosul, Hodgson, Cat. Hodgson's Coll. B. M., new. ed. — 

 F. diardi apud Jakdine, Nat. Lib. Felidse, figd. 



The Marbled Tiger-cat. 



Bescr. — Ground color dingy-fulvous, occasionally yellowish-gray, the 

 body with numerous elongate, wavy, black spots, somewhat clouded or 

 marbled ; the head and nape with some narrow blackish lines coalescing 

 into a dorsal interrupted band; the thighs and part of the sides with 

 black round spots ; the tail black-spotted, and with the tip black ; belly 

 yellowish-white. 



Length, 18^ to 23 inches, head and body ; faul 14 to 15^ ; ears, from 

 crown of head, 2. 



This prettily marked wild-cat has been found in the Sikim Himalayas, 

 in the hilly regions of Assam, Burmah and Malayana, extending into the 

 islands of Java at all events. It was formerly considered by Mr. Blyth to 

 be the representative of the Malayan F. marmorata, but in his Synopsis he 

 his joined it to that species. 



In the original edition of Hodgson's British Museum collections, it is not 



