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Show 1867.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE FELIDAE. 395 spots of the lower part of the sides rather larger ; belly white, with large blackish spots ; tail quite half the length of the body, with a dark line along the upper surface, sides paler, with obscure indications of darker bands. Hab. Gambia (Rendal). The typical skin in British Museum. 2. FELIS SERVALINA, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 4. Fur fulvous, beneath white, middle of the back darker, with very numerous small black spots, spots on sides rather larger, on the belly much larger; tail short, fulvous, with five or six imperfect black rings and a pale tip. Hab. Sierra Leone. Three skins in British Museum. 3. FELIS RUTILA, Waterhouse, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 130. Red-brown, with indistinct darker spots on the back ; belly white, with large brown spots ; tail moderate, nearly half the length of the body, red-brown, with a dark central line down the upper surface, paler with obscure indications of bands on the sides. Hab. Sierra Leone. Type and two other specimens in British Museum. The skull of this species is in the British Museum. It is oblong ; the orbit rather large, incomplete behind ; the intermaxillary produced and extending halfway up the side of the nasal; the upper front false grinder very small. Temminck has described a Cat purchased at the sale of Bullock's Museum in Piccadilly under the name of Felis celidogaster (Monogr. M a m m . 140), stating that he believes that it inhabits Chili or Peru (more lately it has been believed that it might be an Indian Cat- the Felis viverrina of Bennett, for example) ; but no Cat of the kind is known in those countries. In his 'Esquisses' he has rede-scribed the species from a specimen received from Guinea. The following is a translation of his description:- "FELIS CELIDOGASTER, Temm.Monogr. i. 140; Esquisses Zool. 8 7. "Felis chalybeata, H. Smith, Griffith, A. K. ii. t. (not good). " Tail rather shorter than half the length of the body and head. Length of body and head 26, tail 14 inches = 3 feet 4 inches. " Fur short, smooth, shiny, grey, with a reddish tint, with chocolate or light brown spots; spots on dorsal line oblong, the others round ; cheek and lips whitish, with small brown spots ; throat and chest with six or seven half-circular brown bands; lower parts and inner side of the limbs pure white, with large round chocolate-brown spots; two bands of this colour on the inner side of the fore, and four on the hind feet; tail bay brown, with paler brown rings, end black brown ; outer face of the ears black ; claws white." Lesson, in the ' Magasin de Zoologie' for 1839 (Mammiferes, 1.10), has figured and described a Cat under the name of Felis senegalensis, which is said to have been brought from the river Senegal. It is thus described:-"Felis rufo- fulvoque-griseus, subtus rufescenti- |
