1843.] Notes on a curious species of Tiger or Jaguar. 815 



than in the Leopard. Claws powerful. Lips, brows, and cheeks near 

 the corners of the mouth, furnished with whitish vibrissse. 



Color. — Pale bistre brown, (a plain dullish clay brown,) fading on 

 lower parts inside the limbs, and on cheeks and lips to pale rufous tawny. 

 Centre of head covered with small longitudinal black spots, a few also 

 about supercilium. Inferiorly and posteally to eye, two narrow stripes 

 reaching to molar angle, and produced, with broken intervals, by other 

 broader stripes along the side and front of neck. A black band across 

 throat, bases of ears black. From behind ears, all along mesial line of 

 back, a double line of chain-like stripes, more or less interrupted 

 and more or less parallel. On the nuchal region these diverge and 

 afford room to an inner, smaller, similar chain. From each side these 

 chains diverge three large ovate spaces, encircled by broken lines and 

 patches, well defined posteally, almost obsolete anteally. The loins 

 and flanks of the belly, instead of these large patches, have similar 

 but smaller and more numerous ones ; some nearly circular, all packed 

 together so as to leave narrow intervals between them. On the limbs 

 the markings are more irregular, consisting of zig-zag longitudinal 

 patches, decreasing to spots on the carpal region. Paws (as nose) plain 

 dull brown. Tail brown, thickly furred and marked black. Its end 

 plain brown. The large oval spaces and the smaller ones of the after- 

 parts of the sides do not reach to the belly, which is marked with 

 large irregular patches and lines. These marks are all, above and 

 below, black. And the areas of the large encircled spaces, as also 

 of the smaller ones, above-mentioned, are shaded with a darker tinge 

 of brown, and the former are therein studded with black spots, which 

 give the fur a rich and beautiful appearance. 



Although I have not so named it above, I have little doubt that this 

 animal is the same as the Felis Macrocelis of Temminck, known at 

 Sumatra by the name of Rimau-dihan, or ' Tree Tiger', and minutely de- 

 scribed in Jardine's Naturalist's Library in the volume on Felinae. The 

 ground- color of the body is there said to be greyish, not the slightest 

 tinge of which is perceptible in the skin before me. The size of the 

 present subject is also superior, its total length being six feet and three 

 and a half inches. In all other respects the description exactly coincides. 

 The bulky limbs, stout body and powerful retractile claws of the ani- 

 mal do not seem to accord well with Sir Stamford Raffles' description 



