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APPENDIX. 
Habitat. Abo on tlie Niger^ wliere Dr. Thomson accidentally 
procured it, while firing at a specimen of the Halcyon Bene- 
galensisj as mentioned in Vol. I. of the Narrative. Mr. Gray 
has by mistake named it Foensk instead of Ehoe^ms. Pre- 
vailing colour, yellowish grey; the sides of the body bright yel- 
lowish white. Whitish grey on the head and neck; hair black- 
ish at the base; with a white tij) on the head, and yellowish 
brown tip on the body; ears moderate, half covered Avith close 
hair; ti*agus moderate, half ovate, blunt; heel-bone elongate, 
slender ; thumb rather elongate, compressed. 
Presented to the British Museum by Dr. Thomson. 
Order 11. FERH^. 
Family I. Felidae. 
Felis riitil'iis. (Waterhouse, in Proc, Zool. Soc. Lond., 
Sept. 1842.) 
Fel. pilis brevibus adpressis ; corporo supra ferrugineo, ad 
latera indistincte niaculato, maculis parvulis, subtus albido 
maculis rufo-nigricautibus ornato; cauda brevi, immaculata, 
supra obscure rufa, subtus pallidiore. 
Lougitudo cor];)oris circiter . . .36 unc. 
„ caudsD . . , . .10 
The skin which furnishes the above characters was procured 
by Mr. L. Fraser, when at Sierra Leone, and was said to be 
from the Mandingo country. Unfortunately, like all the other 
skins brought from the interior for sale or barter, it is imperfect, 
wanting the head and lower parts of the liTubs. In the short- 
ness of the tail and in its nearly uniform colouring, it approaches 
the Lynxes. 
Genetta BicJiai'dsoni. (Thomson, in Ann. Nat. Hist., 1842.) 
Geneita Poensis. (Waterhouse, in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 
1838.) 
Gen. fulvescenti-fusca; dorso lineis nigris confluentibus et 
irregularibus maculis nigris crebre adspersis ; cauda nigra, annu- 
lis fulvis interruptis. 
Habitat. Fernando Po, W^estern Africa. 
