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FELIS DIARDI.
THE. C LOUD ED TIGER.
FELIS DIARDI, Desmoul. Diet. Class.;(1823) vol. iii. p. 495. sp. 10.—Cuv. Ossein. Foss. vol.,iv. p. 437— Fisch. Syn. Mamm. (1829) p. 206.
sp. 19.—Swain. Anim. Menag. p. 130 (1838).—Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1863) p .- 183. sp. 7.—Jerd. Mamm. Ind. (1867) p. 102.
sp. 107.
FELIS MACROCELIS, Vig. & Horsf. Zool. Journ. (1825) vol. i. p. 542.—Temm. Mion. Mamm. (1827) vol. i. p. 1Ó2.—Less. Man. Mamm.
(1827) p. 189. sp. 506.—Fisch. Syn. Mamm. (1829) p. 201. sp. 8.—Vig. Mem. Raffl. (1830) p. 636.—Less. Nouv. Tab. Regn. Anim.
(1842) p. 82. sp. 519.—Gerv. Hist. Nat. Mamm. (1855) p. '81.—Hodg. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beüg. vol. xi. p. 275.—Tickell, Journ. Asiat.
Soc. Beng. vol. xii. pt. ii. p. 814.—Jard. Nat. Libr. vol. xvi. p.-172, pl. ix.—Swinh. Proc. Zool. Soc. (1870) pp. 228, 237, 628. sp. 38.
David, Nouv. Archiv. Musi -Paris, (1 8 7 1 ) vol. vii. p. 92.—Blyth, Cat. Mamm. & Birds Burma, (1 8 7 5 ) p. 27. sp. 54.
FELIS NEBULOSA, Vig. & I-Iorsf. Zool. Journ. (1 8 2 5 ) vol. i. p. 551.—Griff. Anim. King. (182?) p.. 450, pl.—Temm. Mon. Mamm. Append.
p. 250.—F. Cuv. &St.-HiI., Hist. Mamm. (1829) vol. ii. pl. 120.—Swain. Anim. Menag. (1838) p. 121.
TIGRE ONDULÉ, Temm. Mon. Mamm. (1827) Append, voll i. p. 257..
R1MAU DAHAN, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. p. 250.
FELIS MACROCELOIDES, Hodg. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist.:vol. iv. p. 286— Ilorsf. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., n. ser. (1855) vol. xvi. p. 105.—
Id. Proc. Zool. Soc. (1856) p. 395. sp. 18.—-Gray, Cat. Hodg. Coll. Mamm. Brit. Mus. (1846) p. 5, (18 6 3 ) p. 3. sp. 28.
PANTHERA (UNCIA) MACROCELIS, Severtz. Rev. Mag. Zool. (1858) p. 387.
LEOPARDUS BRACHYURUS, Swinh. Proc. Zool. Soc. (1862).p. 352, t. 4 3 ..
FELIS BRACHYURA, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1863) p. 183. sp. 9.
NEOFELIS BRACHYURUS, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. ,(1867) p. 266.—Id. Gat. Carn. Mamm. (1869) p. 14.
NEOFELIS MACROCELIS, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1867) p. 266, fig..3 (skull).—Id. Cat. Carn. Mamm. (1869) p. 13, fig. 3 (skull).
PANTHERA MACROCELIS, Fitzin. Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, (1868)'lviii. p. 483.
PANTHERA NEBULOSA, id. ibid. p. 485.
PANTHERA DIARDI, id. ibid. p. 486.
LEOPARDUS MACROCELIS, Swinh. Nat. Hist. Hainan, (1870) p. 7.
I I a b . Mountainous parts of South-east Asia, with the islands of Sumatra and Borneo (H o d g so n ). Formosa, Hainan
(Sw in h o e ). Moupin (D a v id ).
T i ie range of this handsome animal is very extensive, as it is found in the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, through the
Malayan peninsula, into Sikkim, Nepaul, Burmah; also in the Himalayas, at an elevation of from 5000 to 10,000 feet, and
also in Thibet. I t is likewise a native of Hainan and Formosa. The animal from the last-named island was described
by Mr. Swinhoe as distinct (I. c.) under the name of Leopardus brachyurus, on account of the shortness of the tail. This
member he afterwards discovered varied greatly among individuals; and as it was the character upon which the species
was founded, he referred it back to the present one, of which he considered it a small race. It is not improbable that
in a series of specimens from Formosa some would be found to equal in size those of the continent. The Clouded Tiger
is generally known among naturalists as the Felis macrocelis usually ascribed to Temminck, as given by that author in his
‘ Monograph of the Mammal i ab ut this name appears to have been previously bestowed upon this species by Vigors
and Horsfield (L c.). Desmoulins (I. c.) had four years previously described the animal as F. diardi, which name, having
a prior right, is the one the species should bear. Hodgson called the examples from Nepaul F. macroceloides on account of
their rather smaller size and slightly different markings. There is too much variation among individuals of this species,
as is the case in all the members of this family, for a separate form to be established upon such slight grounds. Blyth,
in the 1 Mammals and Birds of Burma,’ says “ that as this animal increases in age, its ground-colour becomes more
fulvous, and there is much individual variation in its markings.” It will be seen by the list of synonyms quoted above
that this species has been the recipient of many names, and also been assigned to a considerable number of genera.
Although I have examined a tolerably large series of both skins and skulls, I have never seen any that seemed to require