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mentioned, and it first occurs in Horsfield's paper on some new contribu- 

 tions by Hodgson, presented in 1853, as F. charltoni, with the MSS. name 

 by that gentleman of F. duvaucelli. In the recent edition of Hodgson's 

 British Museum Collections, we find No. 26, Leopardus dosul. Syn, 

 F. duvaucelli and F. dosul, Hodgson ; but Hodgson himself described it 

 in 1846, in Cal. J. N. H., as F. ogilhyi. 



I can find nothing recorded of the habits of this cat. Mr. Blyth 

 remarks that it has much the same distribution as F. diardi, or not 

 perhaps quite so extensive : and the ground color would similarly ap- 

 pear to become more fulvous with age. 



110. Felis bengalensis, 



Desmodlins. — F. sumatrana and F. javanensis, Hoesfield, Zool. 

 Res., Java, with figure. — Jardine, Nat. Libr., pi. — F. minuta, Tem- 

 MiNOK. — F. undulata, Schinz. — F. nipalensis and fpardichrous, Hodg- 

 son. — F. , Elliot, Cat. 29. — Leopardus chnensis, reevesii, Elliotti; 



and Chaus servalinus, Gray. 



The Leopard Cat. 



Deser. — Ground hue varying from fulvous-gray to bright tawny yellow, 

 occasionally pale yellowish gray or yellowish, rarely greenish-ashy, or 

 brownish-gray ; lower parts pure white ; four longitudinal spots on the 

 forehead, and in a line with these four lines run from the vertex to the 

 shoulders, the outer one broader, the centre ones narrower, and these two 

 last are continued almost uniaterruptedly to the tail ; the others pass into 

 larger bold, irregular, unequal, longitudinal spots on the shoulders, back 

 and sides, generally arranged in five or six distinct rows, decreasing and 

 becoming round on the belly ; two narrow lines run from the eye along 

 the upper Up to a dark transverse throat band ; and two similar transverse 

 bands run across the breast, with a row of spots between ; tail spotted 

 above, indistinctly ringed towards the tip ; the inside of the arm has 

 two broad bands, and the soles of all the feet are dark-brown. There is 

 generally a small white superciliary hne. 



Length, head and body, 24 to 26 inches ; tail 11 or 12, and more. 



From the numerous synonyms it will be seen that this is a variable species, 

 both as to the ground-color of the animal, and the size and boldness of its 

 markings, though all retain much the same pattern as the example here 



