XI. 



NOTE 



ON THE 



FELIS CRISTATA, 

 A NEW FOSSIL TIGER, 



FROM THE 



SIVA^LIK HILLS. 



By HUGH FALCONER, M. D., 



Superintendent Botanical Garden, Seliaranpur, 

 AND 



Captain P. T. CAUTLEY, 



Superintendent Doab Canal, 



To the large fossil species of the genus Felis hitherto described, we are 

 now enabled to add another from the Tertiary Strata of the Sivalik Hills, 

 differing alike from the F. Spelcea and F. Antiqua of the " Ossemens Fos- 

 siles;" and, (so far as our means for comparison enable us to judge) from 

 every known member of the genus. 



The specimen from which we take our description, is one of the most 

 perfect that has up to this time been exhumed from the fossil tract. It 

 was found at the foot of a sandstone cliff, partly encased in a hard stone 

 matrix. It consists of a nearly entire head ; deficient only in the tempo- 

 ral apophysis of the left zygomatic arch, and in a small portion of the 

 sagittal crest. The incisors had dropped out, but the alveoli are sufficiently 

 distinct to indicate their number and relative size. The cheek teeth are 



