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chaus, obscura, &c. In a subsequent paper (pp. 874-876) the author shows 
that F. Cuvier and Blyth have erroneously confounded this long-tailed Afri- 
can form with the true Indian short-tailed Chaus. 
4. Some of the small spotted Asiatic cats have a long skull and complete 
bony orbits (p. 899). 
5. Others have an ovate skull and incomplete orbits : — F. siwiatrana, ja- 
vents, nepalensis, chinensis, pardmoides (sp. n., p. 400), wagati, pardochroa, 
tennasserimensis (sp. n., p. 400), servalina, jerdoni. 
6. Felis ornata (Gray) is redescribed, p. 401. 
7. Leopardus hernandezii has the same skull as the common Jaguar, and is 
only a variety of it, p. 402. 
8. The varieties or species of Ocelots are again characterized, and a new 
form, Felis pardoideSf is added, p. 403. 
9. The three small spotted South- American cats {F, macroura^ mitis^ and 
tignna) are characterized, p. 404. 
10. Pardalina warwickii = Leopardus hinialayanus (Gray) is probably from 
South America ; it is described aud figured, p. 405, pi. 25. 
^^eopat'dus japonensis (Gray). Dr. v. Martens doubts the occurrence of a 
Leopard in Japan. Preuss. Exped. Ost Asien, p. 76. 
Felis aurata (Temm.) figured by Sclater in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, pi. 36. 
^elis domestica. Prof. Bolleston shows, first, that the ancient Greeks and 
Homans had not domesticated the Cat in classical times, that there is no rea- 
son for supposing that it was domesticated in any other country than Egypt 
before the Christian era, that it was, nevertheless, domesticated in Western 
Europe at an earlier period than is commonly assigned, there being evidence 
to show that the Cat and the Common Marten were in use as domesticated 
animals side by side, and at the same time in Italy, nine hundred years before 
the period of the Crusades j secondly, that Mustelafoina was kept in a do- 
mesticated state, and is the Cat ” or ya\rf of the ancients, who denomi- 
nated Mustela martes yaXtj aypia, and Viverra genetta TapTt]araia yaX^. Journ. 
of Anat. & Physiol. 1867, i. pp. 47-61. 
On a Cat with supernumerary digits. B. G. Wilder in Proc. Bost. Nat. 
Hist. Soc. xi. pp. 3-8. 
Cryptoprocta ferox. M. A. Milne-Edwards has examined the adult speci- 
men and skeletons collected by M. A. Grandidier. He describes chiefly its 
dental and osteological characters, and comes to the conclusion that it ap- 
proaches the Felidce most closely, and that it should form a plantigrade divi- 
sion of this family. Ann. Sc. Nat. 1867, vii. pp. 314-338. Plates 7-10 re- 
present chiefly the skeleton and its parts. 
The skull and habits of the same animal are described by Schlegel & Pollen, 
Becherch. Faun. Madag. p. 13 j skull figured on pi. 9. 
ViVERRIDiE. 
Viverra schlegelii again noticed by Schlegel & Pollen, 1. c. p. 16. 
^ Galidia decemlineata^ sp. n., Grandidier, Bev. et Mag. Zool. 1867, p. 85, 
from Madagascar. 
Canid^e. 
^Canis domesticus. Dr. Fitzinger has published Besearches on the origin 
of the Dog,” Sitzgsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, liv. pp. 396-467. The author 
.examines the records preserved from the times of the ancient Bomans, Greeks, 
