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resemble the other smaller members of the Cat tribe, being ready 

 climbers and exceedingly bloodthirsty. 



F. yaguarimdi, rather larger than the Domestic Cat, with an 

 elongated head and body, and of a uniform brownish-gray colour, 

 ranges from Matamoras to Paraguay. F. eyra is a small Cat, very 

 Musteline in form, having an elongated head, body, and tail, and 

 short limbs, and is also of a uniform light reddish -brown colour. 

 It is a native of South America and Mexico. F. pajeros is the 

 Pampas Cat. The American Lynxes have been already noticed 

 with those of the Old World. 



C. Fossil Species. — It has been already incidentally mentioned 



Fig. JoO. — The Ocelot (Felis partialis). 





that several of the existing species of Felis, .such as the Lion, 

 Leopard and Caffre Cat, are met with in a fossil condition in the 

 European Pleistocene deposits, and it may be added that the Pardine 

 Lynx has left its remains in the cavern-deposits of Gibraltar. The 

 caves of Brazil have yielded remains of the Jaguar and Ocelot ; 

 while the Puma is found in the Pleistocene of the United States. 

 Existing species now inhabiting India are met with in cavern- 

 deposits in Madras. In the Pliocene Siwaliks of Northern India 

 the huge extinct F. cristata shows characters connecting it both 

 with the Tiger and the Jaguar ; and the same deposits also contains 

 the remains of a small species of the size of F. bengalensis. In 

 Europe numerous species occur in the Upper and Lower Pliocene, 



