Order Carnivora. Carnivores. 



Family Felidae. Cats. 

 Genus Felis (112). 



Felis arundivaga Hollister. 



Felis arundivaga Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXIV, 1911, 

 p. 176. 



Type locality. Twelve miles southwest of Vidalia, Concordia 

 Parish, Louisiana. 



Genl. Char. Size large; pronounced caudal stripe; nasals very 

 broad; sagittal crest highly developed. 



Color. Black spot on each side of nose; face blackish; white 

 streak over eye; upperparts and outer side of limbs grayish fawn; 

 upperparts mixed with dusky; nape color indistinct, on middle of back 

 and withers pale rufous; inner side of legs grayish; lips and throat 

 white; .chest fulvous; feet pale rufous; tail dark grayish fawn, with 

 a dark brown stripe above for the entire length. Ex type in United 

 States National Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 2100; tail, 735. Skull: Occipito- 

 nasal length, 193; Hensel, 174; zygomatic width, 159; intertemporal 

 width, 37.1; medium length of nasals, 50.3; palatal length, 85.3; 

 length of upper molar series, 46.3; length of mandible, 14.5; length of 

 lower molar series, 45.6. Ex type in United States National Museum. 



1 Felis improcera Phillips. 



Felis improcera Phillips, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXV, 1912, 

 p. 85. 



Type locality. Calmalli, Lower California, Mexico. 



Genl. Char. Size smaller than F. browni Merr.; teeth larger. 



Color. "Dark fawn color (Ridgway), darker along the back where 

 it is mixed with dusky-tipped hairs. General color less reddish than 

 F. azteca. Tail bicolored ending in a conspicuous black tip, the hairs 

 of which are three centimeters long." 



Measurements. Skull: "Basal length, 150; palatal length, 72; 

 palatal length from gnathon to tip of hamalar process, 105; length of 



1 The author has not seen a specimen of this Puma. Its chief claim to a distinct 

 form appears to be its comparatively small size, a character pertaining to most ani- 

 mals as they approach equatorial regions, but hardly a sufficient one for specific 

 separation. 



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