44 Observations on the Manners and Structure, fyc. 



The times of breeding are said to be February and August, 

 and the litter to consist of two young, there being two litters 

 each year. Dr. Horsfield has so fully described the teeth 

 of Prionodon, that I have purposely omitted to say any thing 

 on that head. As however the Doctor has neither figured nor 

 described the scull, I may as well add that in its general form 

 it resembles that of the small civets, but is contradistinguish- 

 ed by the nearly total absence of the longitudinal and occipi- 

 tal ridges or keels, albeit the posteal part of the encephalon > 

 next the occiput, exhibits a keel-like depression. The scull 

 is elongate, low, very slightly arched or curved along the 

 culmenal line, and has a long but feeble and little bulged 

 zygomatic arch, and a large elongate auditory cavity. The 

 orbits are incomplete, as in the cats and civets. The dental 

 formula, I need scarcely add, is | 77 §§• Tne sharpness 

 of the coronal process of the molar teeth seems to indicate 

 that the animal is somewhat insectivorous, which, I hear, 

 is actually the fact. Admirable illustrations from the pencil 

 of my Newar artist are subjoined to this paper, and they 

 are the more necessary in that this species has never been 

 depicted, and that the only other species or Gracilis, is miser- 

 ably distorted in Horsfield's delineation. I have added some 

 organic illustrations of the genus from the same skilful 

 pencil. 



P. S. — While penning the above, I received specimens of 

 a wild cat which, appearing to me new, I subjoin a summary 

 description of it. 



Felis Ogilbii. — A small wild cat, of a deep sordid fulvous 

 ground colour, covered throughout and uniformly with numer- 

 ous small black marks of a round or somewhat elongate 

 form. Aspect and size of the domestic cat but with longer 

 and more cylindric tail, equal to the body and neck. Length 

 of the animal eighteen and a half inches ; of tail with hair 



