62 CARNIVORA. 
no doubt that M. de Saussure’s F. mexicana * is also identical, and that only one 
species of Tiger-Cat, very variable in colour and proportions, ranges from Paraguay 
to Mexico. 
In Central America the Margay, like the Ocelot, is generally distributed in the warm 
lowlands. Specimens have been sent by Arcé to the British Museum from Panama ; 
and Dr. v. Frantzius tells us that in Costa Rica, where it is called Cauzel, its tracks 
are very commonly found on the banks of streams which run in narrow gorges tangled 
with underwood. In Guatemala Mr. Salvin once obtained a maimed specimen which 
had just been caught by hunters at La Grande, in the Pacific coast-region; but all 
the other skins he collected were purchased from natives. The type of M. de Saus- 
sure’s F. mexicana was procured near Alvarado, in the State of Vera Cruz®; and this 
appears to be the most northern locality which has yet been recorded. 
4. Felis concolor. 
Felis concolor, Linnzus, Mantissa, p. 522, pl. ii. (1771, descr. orig.)*; Baird, Rep. U.S. Mex. 
Bound. Surv. ii., Mamm. p. 5’; Frantzius, Arch. f. Naturg. xxxv. 1, p. 288°; Dugés, La 
Nat. i. p. 187%. 
Leopardus concolor, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1859, p. 51°. 
Mitzli, Hernandez, De Quad. Nov. Hisp. fol. 4, cap. x1. 
Leon of Spanish Americans. 
Hab. Norra America, from Canada southwards. — Mexico (Hernandez, Dugés*) ; 
GuatemaLa, Volcan de Agua, Volcan de Fuego, Duefias (Godman & Salvin, Mus. 
Brit.); Honpuras, Comayagua (Leyland*®); Costa Rica (frantzius*).—Souta 
America to Patagonia. . 
Of all the American Cats the Puma has the widest range, extending over a hundred 
degrees of latitude, from Patagonia in the south to the Dominion of Canada in the 
north. | 
In Central America “el Leon” appears to be plentiful in the wilder parts of the 
country, especially in the mountain ranges. In Costa Rica Dr. v. Frantzius says it is 
found in the upper belt of the primeval forests, at an elevation of from 5000-6000 feet, 
where the hideous sound of its howling is almost continuously heard in the breeding- | 
season °, 
Of the habits and distribution of the Puma in Guatemala, Messrs. Godman and 
Salvin inform me that it “is common in all the forest-country up to a considerable 
elevation, being found in the belt of dense forests of the Volcanoes of ,Agua and 
Fuego as high as 8000 or 9000 feet. We not unfrequently came across its tracks 
in this forest. The Indians of Duefias once brought us a freshly-killed animal, which 
* This is not to be confused with the Felis mewicuna of Desmarest, which is a synonym of F. yaguarundi. 
Of. p. 63. 
