SPOTTED AND STRIPED MAMMALS 35 



of the Marbled Cat (F. marmorata), and those of the Clouded 

 Leopard {F. nebulosd), both of which can be seen on pp. 409 and 

 407 of the Roy. Nat. Hist. 



Besides the two variations of Ocelot which I have given, there 

 are others which have longitudinal stripes that do not enclose any 

 spaces, and are not unlike those on the shoulder of the light- 

 coloured Ocelot in the foregoing figure (19). 



There is a large number of spotted animals, and in the Appen- 

 dix I have given as many as I could. The point the reader should 

 note is that the rosettes of these spotted animals become dark rings 

 on the tail, alternating with rings of the general ground-colour. 



Having studied these rosetted Cats, we are now in a position to 

 understand their relation to striped Cats. 



There are numbers of small Cats and Genets with their spots 

 arranged in longitudinal order, and others, as may be seen in 

 Fig. 27, with them arranged in transverse order. 



This happens frequently, not only in the Cat tribe, but in other 

 animals also, as may be seen in Appendix A, Nos. 16, 17, 18, 

 and others. 



I have said that it will not be difficult to show that the striped 

 animal is only a modification of the spotted one. 



I have already shown that in the Ocelot spots run into longitu- 

 dinal stripes and bands. Now I shall endeavour to show that the 

 stripes of the Tiger are no other than the fusion of transverse strings 

 of spots, so transformed as to have lost all semblance of their spot 

 origin. 



The striped animals par excellence are the Zebras and Tigers,^ 

 with the minor Tiger Cats. With the Zebras I shall deal in an- 

 other place. 



' Xnihe Animal IChigiiom of Baron Cuvier, Mr. Edw. Griffith, in vol. ii. p. 444, gives 

 a pure white Tiger, with only a shading of stripes. 



