. Animals in menageries. It is the Chat-Pard of the French, andthe tiger-cat of the English furriers ; and M. Cuvierincidentally mentions that hundreds of its skins are im-ported from Southern Africa. Strange ! that, of ananimal so common, not the least information exists ofits habits or manners. The size of the serval ranks it with the middle-sizedspecies, — being about two feet and a half long, withoutthe t^l, which is nine or ten inches. The groundcolour of the fur is bright yellow, or fulvous, more orless inclined to grey, and yellowish round the tips ; theunder parts are whitish : the ban
. Animals in menageries. It is the Chat-Pard of the French, andthe tiger-cat of the English furriers ; and M. Cuvierincidentally mentions that hundreds of its skins are im-ported from Southern Africa. Strange ! that, of ananimal so common, not the least information exists ofits habits or manners. The size of the serval ranks it with the middle-sizedspecies, — being about two feet and a half long, withoutthe t^l, which is nine or ten inches. The groundcolour of the fur is bright yellow, or fulvous, more orless inclined to grey, and yellowish round the tips ; theunder parts are whitish : the bands and spots are largeror smaller, and more oi less numerous, in different in-dividuals. The Linked catenata, H. Smith. Griff. Cuv. Syn. p. 168. {Fig. 19.) Major Smith was the first naturalist who made us acquainted with thisvery elegant ocelot,which had probablybeen in some of ourtravelling menageriesunknown to science,and subsequentlyfound its way intoBullocks INluseum, where this acute observer detected. 126 ANIMALS IX MENAGERIES. it : he also met with another specimen in the BerlinMuseum, and made it known to the Prussian pro-fessors. Landseer has executed a masterly etching ofit, from the majors drawing, which will be found inthe work above referred to. Size of the wild cat. — General proportions shorterand heavier than those of the true ocelot. The upperparts and sides reddish yellow, the lower white ; tem-ples ochrey. Several rows of black spots converge fromthe ears to the forehead. On the shoulders, back, side,rump, and hams, are long chain-like streaks of blackand reddish brown intermixed. The belly and throathave black streaks ; and the tail has imperfect blackrings. The (Jiiati Tjger-Cat. Felis Wiedii, .Sc/«/ir/. Chati, F. Cuvier. (Fig. 20,) If, as Cuvier sup]>oses, the species of tiger-cat, called by his brother theChati, is the same asthat discovered byPrince Maximilian ofXeuwied, in Brazil,and named, in hishonour, by Sching,that name should,w
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