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two inches up his leg. On his hinder foot he has the fame, 

 which reaches four inches from the heel, and ends juft be- 

 low the firft joint, and from this circumftan'Ce'i have given 

 him his name. 



His. tail is 13 inches long, the lower part of it, for 6 inches, 

 is occupied with black rings. Between thefe rings his tail 

 is nearly white, the reft much the fame colour as his back. 

 From his nofe to his occiput is 4 inches and three quarters. 

 From one eye to the other, meafuring acrofs his nofe, is one 

 inch and three quarters. From the bafe of one ear to that of 

 the other, is 2 inches and fths. The aperture of the eye 

 three quarters of an inch, and of a yellow iris. The length 

 of his ear from its bafe to the point of the pencil of hairs 

 at the top of it, 4 inches and three quarters. From the fole 

 of his forefoot to his fhoulder, as he Hands, 13 inches and 

 three quarters. From the fole of his hind foot, to the top 

 of his rump, 15 inches and a quarter. 



He has very much the appearance of a common cat, both 

 from the length of his tail, and the fhape of his head, which 

 however is broader, and his neck thicker than that of a 

 domeftic animal. He is an inhabitant of Ras el Feel, and, 

 fmall as he is, lives among thofe tyrants of the foreft, the 

 elephant and rhinoceros. I do not mean that he has any 

 hunting connections with them, as the jackal with the lion, 

 I rather think he avails himfelf of what is left by the hun- 

 ters of the earcafes of thofe huge beafls. But the chief of 

 all his food is the Guinea-hen, of which the thickets and 

 bufhes of this country are full.- For thefe he lurks chiefly 

 at the pools of water when they drink, and in this act of 

 violence I furprifed him. He is faid to be exceedingly 



Vol. V. X fierce, 



