c a T. 
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132. Gay en- Maragnao Mangrave Brafd, 233. Louifap II. 64. 
ne. Felis fera tigrina Bdrrere France Fdis fylvcitos tigrina. ^ F. ex 
JEqidn. 152. grifeo flavcfcene, maculis nigris 
Tepe IViaxIatOn Fernand. Nov. variegata Brijfon quad. 193. 
Flifp. q. c. 28. Lc Margay de Buff on,- xni. 24S. 
LePichou,Cat-a-mount duPratz tab. xxxvii. 
C. with the upper part of the head, the neck, back* 
Tides, fhoulders and thighs of a bright tawny color : 
the face firiped downwards with black : the ihoul¬ 
ders and body marked with (tripes, and oblong large 
black fpots : the legs with fmall fpots : the break, 
and infide of the legs and thighs whitifh, fpotted with 
black : the tail very long, marked with black, 
tawny, and grey : fize of a common cat. 
Inhabits S, America : lives on the feathered game, 
and on poultry: is untameable: makes a noife 
like the common cat. 
Thefe fmall fpotted fpecies are called by the ge¬ 
neral name of tiger-cats : feveral kinds are found in 
the and in the woods near the Cape of 
Good 'Hope , but fo negligently, or fo 11 nfc lent ideally 
mentioned, as to render it impoffible for a zoologift 
to form adefeription from them : yet a good hiftory 
of thefe animals being among the many dejUerata 
of the natural!!!, the following maim accounts may 
ferve to diredb the enquiries of future voyagers. 
liclben ** mentions two kinds one he calls 
■ K Dellon s voy. 77. 
** Hi]}. Cape , II, 126. M. V Abbe de la Caille abufes poor Kolhen 
for bis imperteft hiftory of the Cape : in fa ft, it is not a good one, 
yet (till is the.heft we have : hut great will be the difappointtnent 
of thofe who ieek for fuller information in that of the crrticifing 
Abbe. 
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