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Show 11X16.] MAMMALS FROM T11E ITURI FOREST. 993 Felis chrysothrix, tlie Red Tiger-Cat or Golden-haired Cat, of which the type (in the Leyden Museum) is figured by Dr. J). G. Elliot in plate xxv. of his 4 Monograph of the Felidae,' is generally described as a medium-sized Cat, with the upper parts reddish brown, passing into bright rufous on the flanks, marked on the sides of the body with black spots; the under parts pure white spotted with black; and the tail reddish brown above and lighter below, without, either spots or bars. Although the two face-bars so commonly developed in cats are absent, there is a pair of dark blotches above the eyes. Waterhouse's F. rutila, typified by an imperfect skin from Sierra Leone in the British Museum (PI. LXX. fig. 2), is wholly bright reddish chestnut above, with indistinct darker spots on the flanks, and white below with large brown spots ; the tail being nearly half the length of the body, and reddish brown in colour, having a dark line down the middle of the upper surface, and paler on the sides, with obscure indications of dark ring©s. As to Felis celidogaster, this appears to have been originally described on the evidence of a specimen, supposed to have come from America, purchased at the sale of Bullock's Museum. It was, however, redescribed by Temminckfrom a Guinea specimen (in the Leyden Museum, and figured by Dr. Elliot in the plate already cited), now generally accepted as the type. It is described as measuring 2(i inches to the root of the tail, while the tail itself measured 14 inches, or rather more than half the length of the head and body. In colour it is grey above with a reddish tinge, and spotted all over with light brown or chocolate, the spots along the middle line of the back being oblong, but elsewhere circular; below it is white with large brown spots, while the tail is bay-brown, with paler brown rings and a blackish tip. Dark bands occur on the throat and chest and the inner sides of the feet. The ears are black externally. Gray described his Gambian F. neglecta as grey, marked on the head and body with small dark spots becoming larger on the flanks, and white below with large blackish spots; the tail, which is quite half the length of the body, having a dark line on the upper surface, with obscure indications of rings on the paler sides. One is led to wonder how this Cat could have been regarded as specifically distinct from celidogaster; although the colour is brownish grey rather than grey. Although most subsequent writers have regarded chrysothrix and celidogaster as distinct species, Dr. Elliot suggested that they might more probably be considered respectively as a red and a grey phase of one and the same species. In his plate he figured a third African Cat which he regarded as in some degree intermediate between the two. Turning to Ma jor Cotton's specimen (PL LXX. fig. 1), it is quite clear that it is a member of the cltrysothrix-celidogaster group, with which it accords in the general type of colouring and in dimensions, the length of the head and body being approximately |