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Show 760 MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON VARIOUS IELIDJE. [Dec. 5, Upper parts rich brown-red ; ears and tip of tail black ; markings on the face buff, edged with black ; underparts much paler than the upper, inside of the fore legs whitish buff, crossed with several dusky bars; upper lip pale buff, with three parallel rows of black dots; lower lip and chin white ; underpart of tail white. Hab. Nepal, Sumatra, Borneo. In 1863 Mr. Blyth, in his list of the Asiatic species of the genus Felis, published in the 'Proceedings' of the Zoological Society, separated as F. jerdoni a small Cat, habitat unknown, but supposed to be the peninsula of India, resembling in size the F. rubiginosa, and in markings the F. bengalensis oi Desm. By the kindness of Mr. E. W . H. Holdsworth, I have been put in possession of two Cats collected by him at Aripo, north-west Ceylon, one of which is typical F. rubiginosa, and the other rather intermediate between that species and F. jerdoni. This would prove that Mr. Blyth's species is only a dark form of F. rubiginosa-a fact not to be wondered at, as dark and light varieties among the species of Felis are of very common occurrence. I should state that Mr. Blyth has seen the specimens here alluded to, and agrees with me that his F. jerdoni must now be considered the same as F. rubiginosa. The synonymy of the species will be somewhat as follows :- FELIS RUBIGINOSA. Felis rubiginosa, I. Geoff. Voy. Belanger, Zool. p. 140, pl. 6; Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 185. Viverriceps rubiginosa, J. E. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 269 ; id. Cat. Carn. M a m m . 1869, p. 18. Felis jerdoni, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 185 ; J. E. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, pp. 274, 401. Leopardus sumatranus, Gray, Cat. M a m . B. M . p. 43. The dark specimen from Ceylon, although apparently full-grown, is still quite young, the teeth being still those of a kitten. The remaining species to which I would call the attention of naturalists is one described and figured by Radde, in the ' Reisen im Siiden von Ost-Sibirien,' 1862, p. 106, as Felis undata, Desmarest. A short time since Mr. A. D. Bartlett, the Superintendent of the Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park, lent me a skin of a Cat, stated to have come from Siberia, which appeared different from any which I had previously seen ; but on comparing it with Radde's description of F. undata it was apparently the same. On looking at the original description of F. undata (' Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle,' vol. vi. p. 115) I found it was established upon a Cat from India, said to be little smaller than the F. javanensis, described on the same page, and also compared with the " Chat sauvage Indien" of Vosmaer. Judging from the plate, Vosmaer's animal is only a domestic Cat, and at all events is totally different from the animal figured by Radde, which in many particulars does not resemble any Cat known to inhabit India, possessing, among other characteristics, a short rather bushy tail, quite different |