FELIS CHAUS, SUBSP. NILOTICA. 
177 
This specimen only differs externally from a male in the British Museum from 
Kajpufana, No. 85.8.1.18, in being darker. 
The Eajputana specimen has the following measurements appended to it:— 
mm. 
Snout to insertion of tail.669 
Length of tail.305 
„ tail Avith hair.310 
„ ears. 74 
,, hind foot.165 
This Egyptian cat. in colour, most resembles another cat from the low country 
between Colombo and Kandy, in Ceylon, an area which in its moist nature corresponds 
somewhat to the damp sugar-cane fields of Egypt, in which this cat is generally found. 
Giildenstaedt gives the following measurements of his Felis chaus :— 
mm. 
Apex of nose to anus.762 
Height at shoulder.483 
Length of tail.285 
Length of tarsus. 158 
Measurements of skulls. 
Egypt. 
Egypt. 
Giilden- 
staedt’s 
Sambar, 
Eajputana. 
Kishnagarh. 
cf. 
?. 
type. 
c?. 
cf. 
mxij. 
mm. 
mm. 
mm. 
mm. 
Incisors to ant. margin of foramen magnum . 
108 
96 
106 
99 
98 
Premaxillaries to occipital crest. 
129 
117-0 
, , 
123 
120 
Maximum zygomatic breadth. 
84 
76 
82 
76 
77 
Length of osseous palate. 
48 
43 
42-3 
42 
Breadth between upper molars. 
42 
37 
37*7 
' 35 
35 
„ at infraorbital foramina. 
36 
31 
31 
30 
32 
„ above aural apertures, projection of 
squamosal. 
49 
41-5 
47 
42 
42 
Intertemporal constriction. 
35 
38 
35-2 
35 
Interorbital constriction. 
22-5 
21 
19 
21 
Length of last 3 teeth, 2nd and 3rd premolars 
and molar. 
28 
24-5 
22 
22 
„ 2nd premolar.. . 
10-6 
9-5 
• a 
8-5 
8-8 
„ 3rd premolar. 
16 
14-3 
a • 
13 
12-5 
„ molar transversely. 
4-3 
5 
a a 
3-8 
3-3 
The measurements of the skulls in the foregoing table prove that the Egyptian race 
is larger than the Indian and that its teeth are also more powerful. In its teeth it 
most approaches the cat from the Caucasus, a skull of which in the British Museum 
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