FELIS LTBICA. 
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CARNIVORA. 
Suborder CARNIVORA VERA. 
FELID.E. 
FELIS. 
Felis^ LinnaeuSj Syst. Nat. x. 1758^ p. 41. 
Feline Carnivora, with claws completely retractile and inner cusp of upper carnassial 
tooth well developed. 
3 1 3 1 
Dentition: i. 3 , c. j, pm. na. j = 30. 
Felis lybica, Meyer. (Plate XXIV.) 
“ Booted Lynx/^ Bruce, Travels Source of the Nile, 4to, 1790, vol. v. p. 146. 
Felis lybica, Meyer, Syst. Zool. Entd. Neuholland u. Afrika, 1793, p. 101. 
Caracal aux Oreilles Blauches,^^ Buffon, Hist. Nat. 4to, 1776, Suppl. vol. iii. p. 233. 
Felis caligata, Temminck, Monogr. Mamm. no. 4, 1824, vol. i. p. 123 (1827); Blanford, Geol. 
Zool. Abyssinia, 1870, p. 228; Heuglin, Reise N.O.-Afr. 1877, vol. ii. p. 56; et auct. 
Felis maniculata, Temminck, op. cit. p. 128; Cretzschmar, Riipp. Atlas, 1826, Taf. i.; Fitzinger, 
SB. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, liv. i. 1866, p. 558 ; id. ibid. lix. i. 1869, p. 681; Blanford, op. cit. 
p. 226 ; Heuglin, op. cit. p. 56; et auct. 
Felis ruppelii, Schinz, Cuv. Thier. 1825, vol. iv. p. 509. 
Chat aux Oreilles Bousses” ou Chat Botte,^^ Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm. livr.. Sept. 1826. 
Felis bubastis et Felis dongolana, Hemp. & Ehrenb. Symb. Phys. dec. ii. 1832. 
Felis pulcliella, Gray, Charlesw. Mag. Nat. Hist. i. 1837, p. 577. 
Felis libyca, Is. Geoffroy St.-Hil. Descr. coll. V. Jacquemont, iv. 1844, p. 56; Lataste, Act. Soc. Linn. 
Bord. xxxix. 1885, p. 226; id. Expl. Sci. Tunis., Mamm. 1887, p. 16 (nec F. libycus, Olivier). 
Lynx caligata, Fitzinger & Heuglin, SB. Ak. Wissensch. Wien, liv. i. 1866, p. 558. 
Description of a flat skin idthoiit the head, Suakin, Major Renton, R.A.M.C., D.S.O. 
Pale sandy coloured, with a rather rufous dorsal line from behind the shoulders to 
the tail and with the body-markings arranged in transverse bands, more or less 
continuous or interrupted, of a paler rufous-sandy than the dorsal line. Feet black 
below, and the legs with the usual markings. The rufous dorsal line is prolonged on 
to the tail, where it becomes more yellowish with black hairs intermixed. Tail long, 
with a black tip and usually with three distinct black rings above it separated by 
greyish-white intervals. 
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