56 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 
Japan and a fulvous leopard-like skin in 
India, where it is also called the T1GER-caT; 
and the smallest of all wild cats, the little 
Rusty-spotteD CaT of India. This has 
rusty spots on a gray ground. “I had a 
kitten brought to me,” says Dr. Jerdon 
of the species, “when very young. It 
became quite tame, and was the delight 
and admiration of all who saw it. When 
it was about eight months old, I introduced 
the fawn of a gazelle into the room where 
it was. The little creature flew at it the 
moment it saw it, seized it by the nape 
of the neck, and was with difficulty taken 
; ee y are ., 4, Off.” Of the whole-coloured wild cats—which 
Note the likeness of the thick tail and barred legs to the English wild cat, : 5 
“¢ Inexpressibly savage in disposition’? (Hudson) include the Bay Cart, the American PAMPAS- 
caT, Patxas’ Cat of Tibet and India—the 
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most beautiful is the GOLDEN CaT of Sumatra, 
one of which is now in the Zoological Gar- 
dens. It has a coat the colour of gold-stone. 
The nose is pink, the eyes large and topaz- 
coloured, the cheeks striped: with white, and 
ihe underparts and lower part of the tail 
pure white. 
Four kinas of wild cats are known in 
South Africa, of which the largest is the 
SERVAL, a short-tailed, spotted animal, with 
rather more woolly fur than the leopard’s. 
The length is about 4 feet 2 inches, of which 
the tail is only 12 inches. It is found from 
Algeria to the Cape; but its favourite haunts, 
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like those of all the wild cats of hot COMMETIES, The lowest and longest of the cats, shaped more like a civet; it is readily 
are in the reeds by rivers. It kills hares, tamed, and makes a charming pet 
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rats, birds, and small mammals generally. 
The BLack-FOoTED WILD Cat is another 
African species. It is a beautiful spotted- 
and-lined tabby, the size of a small domestic 
cat, and as likely as any other to be the 
origin of our tabby variety, if tame cats 
came to Europe from Africa. At present 
it is only found south in the Kalahari Desert 
and Bechuanaland. 
The Karrir Cat is the common wild 
cat of the Cape Colony, and a very in- 
teresting animal. It is a whole-coloured 
tawny, upstanding animal, with all the 
indifference to man and generally inde- 
pendent character of the domestic tom-cat. 
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