CAPE CAT, 
" Since it is quite foreign to my purpose, to 
speak of those species which are known already 
to the naturalist, 1 confine myself to that spe- 
cies ciiiy which hitherto has been imperfectly 
known to naturalists. 
" The first notice we had of the Cape Cat 
is, in my opinion, to be met with in Labat's 
Relation Histcrique de PEthiopie Occidentale, 
Tom, i. p. 177, taken, as is supposed, from 
Father Carazzi. Labat mentions, there, the 
'Nsussi, a kind of Wild Cat of the si?e of a 
Dog, with a coat as much striped and varied 
as that of a Tiger. It's appearance bespeaks 
cruelty, and it's eyes fierceness ; but it is cow- 
ardly, and gets is's prey only by cunning and 
insidious arts. Ail the characters are perfectly 
applicable to the Cape Cat; and, it seems, the 
animal is found in all parts of Africa, from 
Congo to the Cape of Good Hope, in an ex- 
tent of country of about eleven degrees of la- 
titude. Kolben, in his Present State of the 
Cape of Good Hope, Vol. iii p. 127, of the 
English edition, speaks of a Tiger-Bush-Cat, 
which he describes as the largest of all the 
Wild Cats of the Cape countries, and is spotted 
somethin & 
