The cat; an introduction to the study of backboned animals, especially mammals (1881) (20560433136)

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Title: The cat; an introduction to the study of backboned animals, especially mammals

Identifier: catintroductiont00miva (find matches)

Year: 1881 (1880s)

Authors: Mivart, St. George Jackson, 1827-1900

Subjects: Cats; Anatomy, Comparative

Publisher: London, Murray

Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library

Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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CHAr. XII.) DIFFERENT KINDS OF CATS. 403 (12.) The Leopard Cat (Felis hengaknsis).* There is a very distinctly spotted cat from northern India which is thus named by Mr. Elliot in his Monograph. Either this kind is subject to great variations in colour and markings, and somewhat also in size, or else there are several distinct species, which cannot yet be accurately defined for want of a sufficient number of specimens. Mr. Jerdon gives as the size of his species thus named: "Length of head and body twenty-four to twenty-six inches; tail eleven or twelve

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Fig. 172—Skull of F. lengalensis. inches and more." He says it is variable, both as to the ground colour and the size and boldness of its markings, though all adhere to one general pattern. The ground hue varies from fulvous-grey to bright tawny yellow, occasionally pale yellowish grey or yellowish, rarely greenish-ashy, or brownish-grey ; lower parts pure white ; four longitudinal spots on the forehead, and in a line with these four lines run from the vertex to the shoulders, the outer one broader, the centre ones narrower, and these two last are continued almost uninterruptedly to the tail; the others pass into larger, bold, irregular, unequal, longitudinal spots on the shoulders, back and sides, generally arranged in five or six distinct rows, decreasing and becoming round on the belly; two narrow lines run from the eye along the * See Jerdou's Mammals of British India, p. 105. This animal is the Felis pardochroa of Dr. Gray (Pro. Zool. Soc, 1867, pp. 273 and 400 ; and Catalogne of Carnivora, p. 28). It is also his F. tcnasserimensis (Pro. Zool. Soc, 1867, p. 400 ; and Catalogue, p. 28) and his F. Ellioti. The last named is only represented by skulls in the British Museum, but these are quite similar to the skulls of F. imrdochroa. It is also the F. iiepalensis of Dr. Gray. Mr. Elliot, in his Monograph, identifies his F. hengaleyisis not only with Dr. Gray's above-mentioned species, but also with his F. Wcujati, as to which latter identi- fication I hesitate to follow him. D D 2

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