Please can anyone identify this `Japan Wild Cat` from a photo I took on April
2nd in the Manchester City Archives from one of the five volumes of The
Pocket Naturalist,1800. (Sorry about the quality.)It was also known as the Indian Wild Cat. Dale Drinnon suggested to me on Facebook that it might be the Iriomote wild cat.The text accompanying the drawing said it was the size of a domestic cat,face,lower neck
whiteish,breast,lower belly,clear grey,body,part yellow and clear grey, tail 10 1/2 inches long, with a cry like " a great cat." Pennant compared it to
the "Chat Sauvage Indien."
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