4 Dr. forster’s Hijlory and Defcription of 
bafket to my apartment, where I kept it above four and twenty 
hours, which gave me the opportunity of defcribing it, and of 
obferving its manners and oeconomy ; as it did to my foil that 
of making a very accurate drawing of it. 
After a moft minute examination, I found its manners and 
oeconomy perfectly analogous to thofe of our domeftic Cats. It 
ate frefh raw meat, and was very much attached to its feeders 
and benefactors : though it had broke the fore-leg by accident, 
it neverthelefs was very eafy. After it had been feveral times 
fed by me, it foon followed me like a tame favourite Cat. It 
liked to be ftroked and carefled ; it rubbed its head and back 
always againft the perfon’s cloaths who fed it, and defired to be 
made much of. It purred as our domeftic Cats do when they 
are pleafed. It had been taken when quite young in the woods, 
and was not above eight or nine months old ; 1 can, however, 
pofitively aver, having feen many Ikins of full-grown Tyger- 
cats that it had already very nearly, if not quite, attained its 
full growth. I was told, that the Tyger-cats live in moun- 
tainous and woody trails, and that in their wild ftate they are 
very great deftroyers of Hares, Rabbits, Yerbuas, young An- 
telopes, Lambkins, and of all the feathered tribe. 
DESCRIPTIO FELIS CAPENSIS. 
Felis cauda fub-elongata, annulata ; corpore fulvo, fupra ma- 
culis virgatis infra orbicularibus, auriculis nigris, macula 
lunata alba. 
* Thefe fkins, with feveral others of rare and non-defeript animals, I bought 
at a very confiderable expence, and depofited in the Britifti Mufeum, that valuable 
national repoiitory of artificial and natural curiofitics. 
