164 CAENIVORA. 



foregoing facial proportions are in all likelihood the subject of considerable changes 

 as the bones expand and elongate with advancing dentition. The auditory bullae 

 are large, as in F. pardus, while in F. chinensis they are not so inflated. 



The black leopard is also found in the Kakhyen hiUs and in the valleys to the 

 eastward, and I obtained two skins at Momien or Teng-yue-chow. 



* Eelis ben&alensis, Desmarest. 



Felis bengaknsis, 'Desm.a,rest,Ma.mm. Sni^^l. 1820, -p. 54,1; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 1829, p. 205 (in 



part) ; Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 184 (in part) ; Cat. Mamm. As. Soc. Mus. Beng. 1863, 



p. 60 ; Jerdon, Mamm. Ind. 1867, p. 105 (in part). 

 Felis sumafmna, HovsH., Zool. Uesch. Java, 1824, (plate); Cat. Mamm. E. Ind. Co. Mus. 1851, 



p. 48 ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 1843, p. 43. 

 Felis minuta, Temminck, Monogr. Mamm. vol. i. 1827, p. 230; Wagner, Schreber, Saugeth. 



Suppl. vol. ii. 1841, p. 509; Gray, Cat. Carniv. &c. Brit. Mus. 1869, p. 26. 

 i^efc m}j«tomiS, Horsfd. and Vigors, Zool. Journ. vol. iv. 1829, p. 282; Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc. 



vol. i. 1832, p. 342; Wagner, Schreber, Saugeth. Suppl. vol. ii. 1841, p. 511; Schinz, Syn. 



Mamm. vol. i. 1844, p. 449; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 272; Cat. Carniv. etc. B. M. 



1869, p, 27. 



Felis ? Elliot, Madras Journ. Lit. and So. July 1839, p. 108. 



Felis Iwrsfieldii, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. x. 1842, p. 260 ; Horsfd. Cat. Mamm. E. Ind. 



Co. Mus. 1851, p. 47. 

 i^efejOflrir/«c7<ro«, Hodgson, Cal. Journ. Nat. Hist. vol. iv. 1844, p. 286; Horsfd. Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1856, p. 396; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 273, fig. 7; Cat. Carniv. etc. B. M. 1869, 



p. 28. 

 .'' Jffefe wwfWfl, Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. vol. vi. 1816, p, 115; Mamm. 1820, p. 230 



(nee Chat Smwage des Indes, Vosmaer) ; Fischer, var. Sumatrana, Syn. Mamm. 1829, p. 205. 



This species is not uncommon in the Kakhyen hills and also at Momien, but 

 specimens from the latter locality have longer fur, probably due to the colder region 

 which they inhabit. The animals, however, from both areas agree with the type of 

 F. pardichroa, Hodgson. 



It is essentially arboreal in its habits, and its prey, the natives assert, consists 

 chiefly of birds and small mammals, such as squirrels and Tupaice. 



It is a variable species, and even although some of Hodgson's type specimens 

 appear at first sight remarkably distinct, stiU with a large series under examination, 

 strongly marked varieties will be seen to be bnked together by intermediate forms. In 

 the India Museum, London, one of Hodgson's types is a rich yellow, rather densely 

 spotted cat, the spots tending to form rosettes, the smaU black spots being clustered 

 round yellowish-brown areas which are darker than the pale yeUow ground colour 

 which surrounds these rosettes. Of the four black bands on the head, the two outer 

 bands expand on the shoulder and then divide into two, enclosing a brown area like 

 the rosettes, and then pass more or less roimd the neck. This specimen is from 

 Nepal, and the body measures 19'50 inches in length and the tail 10-75 inches. 

 Another and more typical specimen also from Nepal is distinguished by the less 

 profuse spotting of the trunk and in the spots being large and black and not tending 



