FELIS SUMATRANA. 
and with several transverse bands on the throat and breast ; but it exhibits the fol- 
lowing peculiarities. The general colour is ferruginous, inclining to yellowish-gray, 
more intense on the back, the crown of the bead, and the upper part of the tail ; 
paler on the sides, and passing into whitish-gray on the cheeks, breast, abdomen, 
and the interior of the thighs and legs. The spots on the sides of the body are 
angular, and scattered almost without regularity, very different from the longitudinal, 
nearly parallel lines which exist in the Felis javanensis: it is difficult indeed to^ 
convey by words a correct idea of their arrangement, and I must therefore refer, in 
illustration of the description, to the figure in which they are carefully represented 
by Mr. Daniel), as they exist on the animal. The colour of the spots is intensely 
brown, inclining to black. On the anterior portion of the back, between the shoulders, 
we can trace the commencement of a scries of irregularly transverse spots, stretching 
obliquely across the sides of the belly. Immediately before these, and exterior to 
the first of the marks which constitute the longitudinal line on the back, is a similar 
triangular spot, but with more regularly defined sides; a little below this, on the 
sides of the breast, are three triangular spots, placed in regular succession, and in 
contact witii each other; they all present one of their points backward, and meet 
the last of the spots of the obliquely transverse series above mentioned, which 
is followed by three other spots, more lengthened, and pointing backward. 
Eetween this scries and the streaks on the back, several spots are disposed, 
of an irremilar oblonjr form : the marks on the flanks follow in succession, 
but are irregular in size and form, and on the lower part of the abdomen 
they are rounded, and smaller. As the various longitudinal series approach 
the lower part of the back and the thighs, they increase in number, so as almost 
to cover those parts, which have a more intense colour, with irregularly oblong 
spots. The limbs are marked with lines, disposed at small distances; they are narrow, 
and interrupted : on the anterior extremities, several large irregularly rounded spots 
are scattered through these. Towards the feet the colour is more uniformly rufous, 
and the marks are more minute and indistinct. The interior of the limbs is marked 
with two transverse hues, of unequal breadth, in the same manner as the Felis 
javanensis. On the upper part of the base of the tail, numerous narrow transverse 
lines are crowded together ; they are more pale and distant in the middle, and the 
extremity is uniformly brown. The face resembles that of Felis javanensis, but the 
checks, as well as the breast, are paler, and on the former several minute spots are 
scattered. The first grinder in the upper- jaw of our specimen is wanting; in all 
other respects the teeth agree with those of Felis javanensis, which is also the case 
with the eyes, ears, and whiskers. 
It is denominated by the Malays Rimau bulu, and is one of the various species 
of Felis which are found on the Island of Sumatra. See T. S. Raffles's Cat. of a 
Zool. Coll. made in Sumatra. Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. p. 249. 
