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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
Measurements of skulls. 
Suakin. 
Suakin. 
Abyssinia. 
Brit. Mus. 
Abyssinia. 
Brit. Mus. 
No. 73. 
No. 83. 
No. 69.10.24.8. 
No. 69.2.2.6. 
d. 
6. 
6. 
5. 
mm. 
mm. 
mm. 
mm. 
Basal length. 
. . . 87 
84 
88 
81 
Greatest breadth. 
. . . 72 
72 
70 
65 
Breadth of brain-case .... 
. . . 46 
48 
46 
43 
Lachrymal fossa to tip of nasal . 
. . . 18-5 
18 
21 
18-5 
Least interorb. breadth . . . , 
. . . 181 
20 
20 
17 
Front of canine to back of ^ . 
. . 33-5 
32 
32 
30 
Length of pm. 3 (outside) . . . . 
. . 12-5 
12 
12-1 
11-2 
This cat inhabits dry situations in rocky or wooded districts. Major Penton says that 
in the country about Suakin it is called by the Hadendowahs ‘ Kafab,’ and that it lives 
in deep holes which extend underground for a considerable distance. These habitations 
are probably burrowed out by other animals. 
Messrs. Kothschild and Wollaston found this species on both sides of the Nile near 
Shendi (Nov. Zool. viii. 1901, p. 328), and say: “ the natives call this animal ‘ Qutt 
gabali,’— i. e. mountain or wild cat. At Cairo this name is applied to Felis chaus!' 
Bruce was the first traveller who furnished a description of this cat, under the name 
f)f the “ Booted Lynx,” which he found at Kas el Feel, in Abyssinia. The figure given 
by him has the ear-tufts very much exaggerated; this misrepresentation and the fact that 
it was called a lynx have caused much confusion. Bruce did not employ scientific 
names, and Meyer took the opportunity of naming all the animals mentioned in his 
book. 
Kiippell was the next traveller to send specimens to Europe; these were obtained in 
Libya and Ambukol about 1822. Temminck in 1824 brought out the first parts of his 
“ Monographies,” containing No. 4, on the Cats; in this work he gave the scientific 
name of F. caligata to the “ Booted Lynx ” of Bruce, at the same time saying that 
F. libi/cus of Olivier belonged to the same species, which was a misstatement; he then 
proceeded to describe the cat sent home by Eiippell under the name of F. maniculata, 
a name the collector had himself written on the labels. Temminck’s separate 
monographs were collected into book form and republished in 1827. Schinz (not 
knowing of, or disregarding, Temminck’s work) called these same specimens after the 
collector, F. riippelii ; one of these was well figured and described, under the name of 
F. maniculata, in the Atlas to Ruppell’s Travels, written by Cretzschmar. This species 
is again mentioned under two fresh names by Hemprich and Ehrenberg in a note on 
the cats, following the description of the leopard {F. parclus), in Avhich they say that 
specimens had been sent by themselves to the Berlin Museum as early as 1822. 
