PHILOSOPHICAL 
transactions. 
L Natural Hijlory and Defcriptlon of the Tyger-cat of the 
Cape of Good Hope. By John Reinhold Forfter, LL.Z)* 
F. R. and A . S. 
Read November p. 1780* 
F EW tribes of quadrupeds have in Africa more reprefenta- 
tives of their different fpecies than that of the Cat. c The 
genus of Antelopes may perhaps be excepted, fince, to my 
knowledge, about twenty different Gha%els and Antelopes are to 
be met with in Africa ; but no more than about eight or nine 
of the Cat tribe have hitherto been difeovered on that continent. 
However, I know about twenty *one different fpecies of this 
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