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Show 404 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE FELIDAE. [^Pr* ^> Tiger Cat called F. macroura. There is a very large series of specimens of the long-tailed species in the British Museum (two Chatis and several Margays) from different localities. And if there were not so many offering such different variations of the first species in the collection (I had only a few selected specimens to describe from), I should have been inclined to separate them into more than one species; indeed, in 1842, when we had only four or five specimens, I did name one in the ' List of Mammalia' as a distinct species under the name of Leopardus tigrinoides. These three species may be easily distinguished from each other by the kind and colour of the fur, and the colour and length of the tail. Thus F. macroura and F. mitis have soft bright fulvous fur, and tail distinctly ringed; and F. tigrina has a harsher grizzled fur, and the tail marked with series of dark spots, not forming distinct rings. They may be characterized thus :- 1. FELIS MACROURA, Pr. Max. Abbild. t. . The Kuichua. F. wiedii, Schinz. "F. brasiliensis, Cuvier." Fur soft, bright fulvous, black-spotted; spots variable in shape and size, often with a pale centre; tail elongate, cylindrical, longer than the body, with from eight to ten broad, well-marked, often interrupted, black rings, and a black tip. Var. Paler, spots larger. Leopardus tigrinoides, Gray, List M a m m . B. M . 1842, p. 42. Hab. Brazil. 2. FELIS MITIS, F. Cuvier, Mamm. Lithogr. t. . The Chati. F. onca, Schreb. t. 102. F. chati, H. Smith. Fur soft, bright fulvous, black-spotted; spots variable in size and disposition, often with a pale centre ; tail cylindrical, rather tapering at the end, nearly the length of the body without the head, with six well-marked, broad, sometimes interrupted black rings, and a black tip. Hab. Mexico ? Paraguay ? 3. FELIS TIGRINA, Schreb. t. 106, from Margay, Buffon, H. N. xiii. t. 38. The Margay. Fur rather harsh, dull, grizzled, varied with black spots and rings varying in size and form ; tail moderate, nearly as long as the body, cylindrical, rather thick, truncated at the end, marked with small black spots often confluent but not forming continuous rings. Hab. South America. There is in the British Museum a Cat that was formerly alive in the Surrey Zoological Gardens, and was there called the Himalayan Cat, and which, in the ' List of Mammalia in the British Museum,' published in 1842, I called Leopardus himalayanus. This animal is figured, from the specimen at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, in Jar-dine's 'Naturalist's Library ' as Felis himalayanus, Warwick. The |