PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
I. Natural Hifiory and Defcriptlon of the Tyger-cat of the 
Cape of Good Hope. By John Reinhold Forfter, LL.D 6 
F R. and A . S, 
Read November 9. 1780# 
JORW tribes of quadrupeds have in Africa more reprefenta-* 
A tives of their different fpecies than that of the Cat. The 
genus of Antelopes may perhaps be excepted, fince, to my 
knowledge, about twenty different Ghazels and Antelopes are to 
be met with in Africa ; but no mdre than about eight or nine 
of the Cat tribe have hitherto been difcovered on that continent. 
However, I know about twenty-one different fpecies of this 
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