58 | CARNIVORA. 
1. F. onca. Bright tawny; spots along spine black; middle of rosettes on sides 
paler than the ground-colour, with central black spots. Length of head and 
body about 50", tail 24". 
2. F. pardalis. Greyish tawny ; rosettes on sides elongated, with rufous centres, 
often confluent; tail with complete rings. Head and body about 36", 
tail 24". : 
8. F. tigrina. Bright tawny; rosettes on sides irregular, with fulvous centres; 
tail with incomplete rings or separate spots. Head and body about 24", 
tail 12”. 
. F. concolor. Uniform greyish or reddish fawn; ears and upper lip black, 
a patch on each side of muzzle white. Head and body about 40", 
tail 24”. 
. F. yaguarundi. Uniform dark fulvous or grey; the fur black, minutely ringed 
with fulvous or white. Head and body about 30", tail 20”. 
F. eyra. Form elongate; legs short; uniform pale rufous. Head and body 
about 20”, tail 12”. 
7. F. rufa. Greyish red-brown, more or less spotted above; inside of legs 
with transverse bars. Head and body about 30", tail 5”. 
pos 
Ort 
= 
1. Felis onca. 
Felis onca, Linnzeus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 61 (1766, descr. orig.)*; Frantzius, Arch. f. Naturg. xxxv. 1, 
p- 279°; Dugés, La Nat. i. p. 187°; Elliot, Mon. Felidee, pt. i.* 
Felis onza, Baird, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. Surv. ii., Mamm. p. 6°. 
Leopardus hernandesii, Gray, P. Z.S. 1857, p. 278, Mamm. pl. lviii. (descr. orig.)°. 
Leopardus onca, Moore, P. Z.S8. 1859, p. 51”. 
Tlatlauhqui Ocelotl seu Tigris Mexicana, Hernandez, Rer. Med. Nov. Hisp. p. 498. 
Tigre of Spanish Americans. 
Hab. Norta America, from the Red River of Louisiana southwards °.—Mexico (Gray §, 
Dugés*, Baird®); GuateMata, Quirigua, forests north of Coban, and whole Costa 
Grande (Godman & Salvin); British Honpuras, Belize (Leyland”) ; Honpuras, 
Omoa (Leyland *), Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica (frantzius ?)—Souru 
America to the Rio Negro of Patagonia‘. 
The range of the Jaguar is a wide one, extending from the Red River of Louisiana 
in the north to the Rio Negro of Patagonia in the south. No well-marked geographical 
races appear to have become established; but there is a considerable amount of indi- 
vidual variation in the depth of the ground-colour, and in the size and arrangement 
of the black markings. A Mexican Jaguar, formerly living in the Zoological Society’s 
Gardens, in which the black edges of the rosettes were much broken up into small spots, 
was provisionally separated by Dr. Gray as Leopardus hernandesii ® ; but he subsequently 
