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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
Measurements of specimens caught at Tamai, Suakin Plain, 25th & 28th Jan., 1894. 
No. 75. No. 85. 
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Snout to vent. 580 560 
Vent to tip of tail. 355 375 
Height of ear. 58 62 
Greatest breadth across head. 95 80 
Snout to eye. 34 31 
Length of eye. 23 20 
Eye to external meatus. 52 48 
Length of tarsus. 141 145 
The male No. 85 has a distinct pencil of hairs at the ear-tips, measuring 20 mm. in 
length. 
Colour of eye bright yellow. 
Munich Museum. 
Felis maniculata, Riipp. Nubia Sup., 1839. 
This specimen is about the size of a large domestic cat, of a pale yellowish sandy 
colour minutely speckled by the paler subapical bands to the tips of the hairs, with 
indications of reddish-yellow lines on the head and still paler but similarly coloured 
spots or bands on the sides, so obscure as almost to be invisible, but becoming very 
distinct on the fore and hind limbs, where they are transverse. Belly white, with obscure 
reddish spots. A red area between the eye and the nose and above the eye ; a narrow 
red line from the hinder angle of the eye directed obliquely downwards, with some faint 
reddish markings on the white of the cheeks. The middle of the back from behind 
the shoulders reddish; this tint is prolonged on to the first half of the tail, and is 
followed by a greyish sandy area, with some indications of dark banding; then with two 
blackish bands separated from each other by greyish areas ; tip of tail black. The 
hinder parts of the fore and hind feet (tarsus) dark reddish brown, almost black. Ears 
not tufted, with whitish hairs anteriorly and reddish hairs on their hinder surfaces. 
Chin and throat whitish, with a narrow reddish collar on the sides of the neck. The 
tail is about the length of that of a domestic cat. 
[Form generally much like that of the domestic cat, but with longer legs and tail. 
The general body-colour grizzled sandy fawn; the ears orange-red, with rather browner 
hairs at the points, 10 mm. in length in some individuals; the dorsum of the nose and 
the area in front of the eyes reddish brown; the face between and above the eyes, the 
upper lips and cheeks very pale buff; two small but conspicuous elongated spots of 
warm brown upon the forehead, one above the anterior canthus of each eye; a narrow 
red line from the hinder angle of the eye directed obliquely downwards to the back of 
