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Show 396 DR. J. E. G R A Y O N T H E FELIDAE. [Apr- 1', albidus, auriculis latis intus albidis, supra nigerrimis cum lunula nivea; dorso et lateribus tribus vittis nigris nee non lineis formatis numerosissimis maculis atris; cauda longa, rufescenti-grisea, nigro maculata; facie rufa, duabus lineis et naso aterrimis; rostro albo; pedibus rufo-griseo punctatis." The description and the figure do not agree with any of the three Cats from Africa in the British Museum. The Felis neglecta, like the Serval, has no dark streak on the cheek, which is so generally found in Cats. In Lesson's figure only one throat-streak (the upper one in most other Cats) is marked, the second streak mentioned in the description being from the side of the forehead to the end of the nose. The tail in Lesson's figure is longer in proportion to the body than the tail of the Serval, or of any of the three African Cats here described; and the belly is not white, as it is in all of them and in F. celidogaster of Temminck. In some respects the Cat agrees with Felis viverrina of Bennett from India (can there be any mistake in the African habitat 1) ; but the streaks on the side of the face are different from those of that Cat, which has two in the usual situation; indeed the streak in Lesson's figure is so unlike the streak in any Cat that I have seen that I almost doubt whether the artist has correctly represented it as going from the orbit to the middle of the front edge of the ear. GUEPARDA GUTTATA, jr. (Pl. XXV.) The young Hunting Leopard (Gueparda guttata) I do not recollect to have seen described. It is covered with long soft hair, of a dark blackish brown colour, on the limbs, sides, and beneath, and very obscurely spotted; the head, back of the neck, the back, and the upper surface of the tail are pale brown ; back of ears black ; an angular line from the front of the orbit to the angle of the mouth dark brown; the lips, chin, and sides of the nose white. Hab. Cape of Good Hope. There are two Cats in the British Museum (one from India and the other from Africa) which are peculiar for having the body marked with transverse or, rather, perpendicular bands which are more or less broken into spots ; and they have more marked, wider, and black bands across the upper part of the fore and hind legs. The tail, which is not quite so long as the body, is of the same colour as the back, and has some narrow black rings near the tip, which is black. The grey species comes from India. There is a single specimen of it in the British Museum, which in the 'List of Mammalia,' published in 1842, I named the Waved Cat (Leopardus inconspicuus), p. 42, referring it to the Felis torquata (Chat de Nepaul, F. Cuvier, Mamm. Lithogr. ii. t.) with doubt, because the tail of that species is represented as of the same colour as the back, with a series of triangular spots forming half bands on the lower surface for the whole length, and there is only one streak (the upper one) on the cheek, while our specimen, like almost all the species of Cats, has two well-marked streaks. As no specimen like the figure has been received from India, I am now inclined to believe that it is intended to represent the Cat in the Museum, and that the differences are |