THE SPOTTED WILD CAT.[41]
The habits of this Indian species differ a good deal from those of most Wild Cats, for instead of living in forests and jungles, it frequents “open, sandy plains, where the Field Rat must be its principal food. I hardly ever remember seeing it in what could be called jungle, or even in grass.â€[42]
It is of a grey colour, spotted with black, and attains a length of sixteen to eighteen inches, not including the tail, which measures ten or eleven inches more. The ears are of a dull-reddish colour, and have a small tuft of hair on the tip, thereby showing a relationship between this Cat and the Lynxes.