FELIS SERVALINA. 49 



The liver is divided into five lobes, besides the lobulus Spigelii. The 

 gall-bladder is almost hid in the middle lobe of the liver, wliich is the 

 longest lobe ; its fundus is seen in the middle of the convex surface of 

 that lobe, as in the [tiger, jaguar and opossum], and its apex is seen near 

 the vena porta? ; it is convoluted near the neck as in the lion, and its 

 duct enters the duodenum about an inch from the pylorus, and receives 

 the duct of the pancreas near its passage into the gut. 



The kidneys are [like those] of the lion land. The coat of the kidney 

 of a common cat has not the veins running in its substance as in the lion. 



[The Ocelot (Felis pardalis, Linn.).] 



A large cat that I had from the Tower was spotted, but not so light 

 as a leopard, nor so round in the spots, they were oblong as in a 

 panther. He was pretty thick made, more so than mine. He had very 

 large testicles, larger than a lion's. He was of the cat-kind ; for there 

 was not that distance between the os hyoides and what may be called 

 the styloid process, and they were connected together by a stout bone 

 as in other cats, or dogs, &c, ; so that the os hyoides was connected to 

 the head by three bones on each side. 



Mr. Banks's Sierra Leone Cat [Felis servalina, Jardine?]. 



[Copy of a Note appended to this MS.] 



"If you will step in at Banks's 1 in Soho Square, you will find the 

 corpse of the fine Sierra Leone cat, the inside of which is at your 

 service. The skin is to be stuffed for the British Museum." 



Small legs and feet : the hind- and fore-legs nearly of the same size. 

 The os hyoides continued to the head. The ductus communis chole- 

 dochus, where it enters [the duodenum], swells into a small bag. All 

 the viscera are similar to those of the cat or lion. 



The skin of this animal is stuffed and in the British Museum 2 . 



1 [Subsequently Sir Joseph Banks, P.R.S., whose town-house, afterwards occu- 

 pied by the Linnean Society, was in that square. As he was raised to the Baronetage 

 in 1781, the reference in the text gives a clue to the date of the dissection.] 



2 [At this period, and for many years afterward, there were no glazed cabinets 

 in the British Museum for the stuifed quadrupeds, which, being exposed to the 

 London atmosphere, have perished. No specimen answering to the above has existed 

 in the Museum within the period of the conservancy of the zoological department by 

 Dr. Gray. My experienced colleague is of opinion that the specimen dissected by 

 Hunter was the Felis servalina of Jardine, of which skins have been received at the 

 Museum from Sierra Leone and Senegal.] 



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