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Show 1867.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE FELID/E. 401 at the hinder part, and on the withers nearly enclosing a lanceolate brown disk. Hab. India ; Tenasserim (Packman). Like F. pardochroa, but larger; spots of withers and loins very different. FELIS SERVALINA. B.M. Fulvous, black-spotted; streak on forehead and cheeks, chin, throat, and beneath yellowish white. Spots small, unequal-sized, far apart; of body oblong ; of legs round ; of loins elongate, sometimes confluent; of withers oblong. Chaus servalinus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 45 (excl. syn.). Hab. India; Zanzibar. Like F. sumatrana, but spots smaller and further apart. FELIS JERDONI. Fur grey, with a few small distant black spots. Spots of sides and legs roundish ; of central line of the back linear, rarely confluent. Tail and feet darker grey brown, scarcely spotted ; chin and beneath white, black-spotted. Felis jerdoni, Blyth, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 185 (not described). Leopardus sumatranus (var. grey), Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 43. Hab. Indian peninsula : Madras. A^dult in British Museum. "Very like F. bengalensis, but smaller; the ground-colour of the upper part grey, untinged with fulvous" (Blyth). Size of F. rubiginosa. The "kitten" that Mr. Blyth refers to as being in the British Museum is a nearly full-grown specimen. The following rather short-tailed Indian Cat has not been well understood. It has been most oddly mixed up by Mr. Blyth and others with Felis torquata (the Chat de Nepaul of F. Cuvier, Mamm. Lithog. ii. livr. 54), also named Felis bengalensis by Desmarest in the Supplement to his Mammalia, which is a grey-waved Cat, nearly like the English Domestic Cat, and is probably a half-bred Domestic Cat of India, as is said to be the case with the F. nepalensis of Vigors and Horsfield (Zool. Jour. iv. t. 39), which resembles this figure in some respects. As the wild Indian species has not been characterized, I here describe the specimen in the Museum :- FELIS ORNATA, Gray, Illustr. Ind. Zool. i. t. 2. Fur short, pale whitish brown, black-spotted. Spots small; on the middle of the back smaller, linear; on the front part of the sides larger, oblong ; on the hinder part of the sides small, round ; on the thighs and upper part of the legs confluent, forming interrupted cross bands. Tail reaching rather below the heel, pale at the lower half, with some interrupted black rings at the end, which is whiter than the rest of the tail, the tip black. Crown with lines of small spots; cheeks with two narrow dark lines; chin, throat, and spot PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1867, No. XXVI. |