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INTRODUCTION
ARRANGEMENT OF THE FAMILY
1. Felis eo
Fels wneia
3. Fels tigria
6. Fels pardus
7. Betis dard
8, Fels marmorata
9, Fels manul
10, Pale pageroe
LL. Baie eoloclo
Plate
Plate UL
M1
Plate IV
Plate V
Plates VI. & VIL
Plate
Pate
Plate
Plate
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More specimens of this peculiar animal are much to be desired; and it would be very interesting to leam if the
unusual coloration exhibited by the unique example was maintained in others, or if the form was
12, Felis jaguarondi
1B. Felis eyra
M4. Pais badia
15, Felis temminchit
16. Felis planicope
Plate XU
Plate XIV
Plate XV
Plate XVI
Plate XVII
little is known of the habits of this Cat; but its unusual dental structure would accord (vide Miva
419) with a fish-eatching habit like that possessed by J
gard to F. eagati, considered by some as distinet, Blyth sta
Plate XVIIL
Plate XIX,
Plate XX.
Plate XXT
(Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 184), that Sir
Elliot presented him with a living exam F. bengelenss os his F. wagati! The members of the
Cat vary” in their coloration and mark ‘most ext
aturalists conversant with the animal; and if one permits
be found necessary to separate nearly every” specimen,
alike,
21. Fels i
Felis tratis
Fels sripta
Felis chryuothrie
Fels sereal
Fel exptilara
Fels jacensia
Felis rabiginons
Fel catus
Belis cara
Fels ornata
Fels cnudata
Felis shaviana
Fel cereara
Felis canadensis
7 Felis pardina
ondinary degree, as has been teknowledged
imselF to recognize more than one species,
Plate XXIL
Plate XXIIL
Plate XXIV
Plate XXV
Plate: XVI.
Plate XVII
Plate XXVIII
Plate XIX,
Plate XXX.
Plate XXXI.
Plate XXXL
Plate XXXUL
Plate XXXIV
Plate: XXXV
Plate XXXVI
Plate XXXVI
Plate XXXVI
INTRODUCTION
38, Fol Iyne : Plate: XXXI¥.
39. Fel rufa Plate XI
40. Faia caracal Plate XL
A. Felix domestica Plate XLT
42. Cynailurue jubatus Plate XLII
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.
‘The Family Felideo is mainly Arctogiean, although it is well represented in the portion
casters hemisphere; but of the species inhabiting Notogwa, nearly one half are also natives of Arct
‘hat really, out of the entire number of species acknowledged as such in this work, only six ae
anywhere within the limits of A These are F. pagervs, F. colocolo, F. jagwarond, B. egra, B. tigrina
1d F. geoffoyi. "The Cats are distributed over a large portion of the earth's surfuce, and are found in five
of the zoogeographical regions, the Australian being the only one in which the family is not repres The
Palearetic and Oriental R ain the greatest number of species, the former having only
than the latter. Many, Is regions, the Palaretic having twelve species peculiar to itself
Oriental but eight. ‘The Pa ion, with which I commence my review, contains twenty species of this family
and of these F eatwe is found in the British Islands and in Western Europe where extensive forests abound
Tt has also been obtained by De. Seully in Yarkand, Eastern Turkestan, of the Siberian subregion, eereara is met
with in Scandinavia (where, however, it is rather rare), in the Caucasus, and northwards along the forests of the Ural
tains in the Siberian subregion; it is aso a native of Persia, in the Mediterranean mF, canadensis
found generally in the northern part of this region, extending southwards along the Ural chain of mountains
imz has a wide dispersion, as it inhabits Scandinavia, the wild portions of Germany, Poland, and Hungary
rare in Switzerland and France, is also met with in Italy and Asia Minor of the Mediterranean subregion,
il is mumerous in Russia, the Caucasus, and the Thibetan plateau of the Siberian subregion. & pardina is
restricted to the Mediterranean subregion, and is found in Port Sicily, Sardinia, and Asia Minor, where
it is rare. In thie subregion too and P. sere
Minor and Pers. # elaus is found in Persia, and F. jubata in Arabia, Syria, and Mesopotamia, and also in the
westem part of Turkestan, of the Siberian
fhe Mediterranean subregio Persia; it is generally in China inthe
P. tigria is wet with Turkestan,
distributed throug
are met with in the vicinity of Algiers, the former also in Asia
subregio 1 is « native of Norther Afiicn witl
Manchurian subregion, and in Persia of the Mediterranean subregion
wide dispersion, its range extending over all the snowy regions of Central Asia, Turkestan, the Thibetan platen
the valley of the Am dl castward to the island of Sakbalien and to Corea, inthe Manchurian sub-
ion, It is also a st of Smyma, in the Mediterrmean subregion, and is found on the
Himalayas as high as 18,000 fect. ‘on the southern slopes of these mighty mountains to the grassy
ons between the limits of the forest and the snow. F. diandi is met with in Thibets and, earacal also in
as well as in Asia Minor and Persia of the Mediterrancan subregion. F. cmudate and F. abwions are native
Turkestan, the fst from Bokbara, the ef PRCDSB A fle Pe gsm tense) a
ngolin tothe Himalayas. ‘The three lastsmentioned species are restricted to the Siberian subregion. Frais
pla have been obtained in the provines of Setchuan, and F. evptilura from near Pekin, in the Manchiri
region, and also in the vicinity of Centon in the Oriental Region, ‘The Oriental Region (which comes next) is
nearly as rich in the number of its species of Felide as is the Palearctic, and contains eight not found in that
region. F. tigrs is met with from the Himalayas at a height of S000 fect, throughout Tndia, to Cape Comorin
it is ako common in Burma, and is found in the Malay peninsula and the islands of Sumatra, Java, and Bali of |