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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
very few of these interesting relics, and the opportunity for a thorough investigation is 
lost.-W. E. DE W. 
[Numerous mummies of cats have been found both in Lower and Upper Egypt: in 
some instances the whole cat has been preserved, in others only the head and fore limbs 
of the animal. To Bubastis, the city devoted to their worship, cats embalmed Avere 
commonly sent for burial, and frequently in mat wrappings over their linen bandages. 
This city has been carefully explored by the Egyptian Archaeological Survey ^ under 
Prof. Flinders Petrie. There have been many mummy-pits opened near Beni Hasan, 
and leopards and cats have a place amongst the painted records on the Avails of the 
tombs. A supposed figure of this species is AA^ell reproduced from the highly coloured 
mural painting in the tomb of Chnem-hotep 
Cats were certainly venerated and so highly esteemed that Herodotus ^ has remarked 
that the death of a cat in a house was the occasion of deepest mourning and the body 
AA^as embalmed and buried Avith much pomp —G. S. A.] 
Felts chaus, Giildenst. 
Fclis chaus, Giildenst. Nov. Comm. Ac. Petrop. xx. 1776, p. 483 ; de Wintou, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
1898, ser. 7, vol. ii. p. 291 ; auct. 
Felis catolynx, Pallas, Zoog. Ross.-As. i. 1811, p. 23. 
Felts chaus, subsp. ntlotica, de Winton. (Plate XXV.) 
Fclis libycus, Olivier, Voy. Emp. Othom. vol. ii. (Egypte) 1804, p. 41 (nee F. lybica, Meyer). 
Felis chaus, Geoffr. & And. Descr. de PEgypte, 1818, Hist. Nat. ii. p. 746; ibid. ed. 8Am, 1828, 
Suppl. vol. xxiii. p. 210; Cretzschm. Riipp. Atlas, Zool. 1826, p. 13, pi. 4 ; Temm. Monogr. 
Mamm. (4) 1824, p. 121 (partim) ; F. Cuv. Hist. Nat. Mamm., Oct. 1826. 
Felis rilppelii, Brandt, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, 1832, tom. iv. p. 209 (nee Schinz). 
Lynx ruppellii, Fitziuger & Heuglin, SB. Ak. Wissensch. YVYen, liv. i. 1866, p. 557. 
Felis chaus nilotica, de Winton, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. ii. 1898, p. 292. 
The following are the measurements of an adult male trapped in a field of sugar¬ 
cane beloAv Heluan:— 
mm. 
Snout to vent, along side of neck, stretched out.746 
Vent to tip of tail.275 
Height at shoulder.395 
Length of tarsus.165 
^ Bubastis, E. Naville. 
3 Herod. 2. 66. 
^ Beni Hasan, IV. pi. v. 
