CINAILURUS JUBATUS. 
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CYNAILURUS. 
Cynailurus, Wagler, Syst. Amphib. 1830, p. 30. 
Claws not wholly retractile; inner cusp of upper carnassial tooth almost entirely 
wanting; infraorbital foramen small and often divided into more than one opening. 
Legs and tail long. 
Cynailurus jubatus, Erxleben. 
Felis jubata, Erxleb, Syst. Regn. Anim. 1777, p. 510. 
Felts guttata, Hermann, Obs. Zool. 1804, p. 38. 
Cynailurus jubatus, Wagler, Syst. Amphib. 1830, p. 30. 
Cyncelurus guttatus, Heuglin, Peterm. Mittheil. 1861, p. 14; Reise N.O.-Afr. ii. 1877, p. 53. 
Cynailurus scemeringii (Riippell), Pitzinger, SB. Ak. Wissensch. Wien, vol. xvii. pt. i. 1855, p. 245. 
Felis megabalia (Heuglin), Hartmann, Zeits. Ges. Erdk. Berlin, 1868, iii. p. 55. 
Heuglin gives the following locality for the Chitah: Southern Takah and Eastern 
Sudan not north of 19° N.; and the Arab name ‘ Fahad ’ or ‘ Fah‘ad.’ 
Riippell (‘Reisen Nub., Kordof,, &c.’ 1829, pp. 63-67) mentions Felis guttata 
as one of the animals hunted in the months of May and June in the western deserts 
of the Dongola district. 
Mrs. Anderson obtained a skin and skull of a young animal from the Zoological 
Gardens at Gizeh, which was said to have been obtained in Kordofan. 
Hartmann [op. cit. p. 57) records the excellent representations of this animal in 
the tombs at Beni Hasan.— W. E. be W. 
