SERVAL. 
The Serval, or Mountain Cat, as BufFon 
has denominated this animal, is the Felis Ser- 
val, of the Linnsean system^ It is called, by 
the natives of Malabar, the Marapute, or Ma- 
raputa ; and, by some travellers, the Tiger 
Cat. Pennant, who calls it the Serval — and 
who has, very properly, as we conceive, dis- 
tinguished between this animal and the Moun- 
tain Cat — arranges it with his Lynxes, which 
we cannot entirely approve ; for though, in 
the whiteness round the orbits of the eyes, as 
well as in it's general appearance, it bears 
considerable marks of affinity, we regard the 
pencils, or tufts, on the ears of the Lynx, as 
an essential chara6leristic of that genus. 
The description given by BufFon, to ac- 
company his figure of the Serval which we 
have exa6lly copied, is as follows— 
" This animal," says he, which lived se- 
Yeral years in the Royal Menagerie, appears 
to be the same with that described by the Gen= 
tlemen 
