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.per one and the lateral crown stripe forms a large drab-gray triangle, 

 between the eye and ear, in which there are but few small black spots. 

 Muzzle, above plain drab-gray, lined on sides with spots of black edged with 

 drab, and plain grayish white posteriorly. Whiskers mostly white, some 

 becoming brownish black at base. Ear with concavity well coated with 

 whitish-buff hairs; convexity black anteriorly, grayish white posteriorly, 

 the latter encroaching on the middle of- the black area, forming a 

 rounded spot, which, in one individual, is narrowly encircled by black 

 posteriorly, cutting it off from the whitish posterior third of the ear. 

 Outer surface of limbs transversely spotted with black, the spots de 

 creasing in si/e from within outward, becoming obsolete on the toes, 

 rnderparts white, very slightly tinged with ochraceous, the pelage drab- 

 gray at base; chin and -throat, middle of neck, and belly between 

 thighs, unspotted. Under side of neck with two transverse bands of 

 black slightly mixed with fulvous, interrupted at median line. Hinder 

 part of neck finely spotted with black: chest and belly coarsely spotted, 

 the black spots rounded on chest and transversely elongated on abdo 

 men. Inner surface of limbs, whitish, transversely spotted with black. 

 Under side of feet, hair brown, sometimes mixed with hoary. Tail, 

 whitish gray, speckled with black below; upper surface irregularly 

 barred with light and dark bands, the former grayish white, the latter 

 drab-gray, edged with black, and somewhat grizzled; light rings averag 

 ing about ten. 



The description of color is based on skins from Fort Clark and 

 Brownsville, Texas. Six from the latter locality were kindly loaned me 

 by Doctor C. Hart Merriam, Chief of the Biological Survey, U. S. De 

 partment of Agriculture. These specimens are quite similar except 

 that one immature female (No. 32,081) is remarkable for intensity of the 

 black markings. All were killed in February and March. The summer 

 pelage appears to be more tawny than that of winter; but the available 

 summer skins are unreliable, having been immersed in a fluid that has 

 probably changed the color. For the same reason, no satisfactory com 

 parison of coloration can now be made with Felis paradalie. 



Mutt and teeth. Compared with Felts paradalis Linmpus the skull 

 of F. linritix is smaller, relatively short and broad, the postpalatal fossa 

 averaging' considerably wider and more quadrate, the audital bulhie 

 much broader and more inflated, and the postorbital processes more 

 flattened and less depressed. The skull of the type, an old male of 

 maximum size, measures as follows: basilar length (Hensel), 114 mm.; 

 zygomatic breadth, 1)3; width of audital bulla, 17; length of upper lat 

 eral toothrow, measured on alveoli, 40; upper premolar series, 28; upper 

 incisor series, 1.5; crown of upper carnassial tooth, 15.8 by 7.8; crown of 

 middle upper premolar, 10 by 5; lower lateral toothrow, 45. A younger, 

 nearly adult male (No. 708:}, U. S. National Museum), from Mirador, 

 Mexico, is considered to represent Felwpardalis Linmeus, and presents the 

 following dimensions: basilar length, 122; zygomatic breadth, 91; width 

 of audital bulla, 10; length of upper lateral toothrow, 43.5; upper pre 

 molar series, 30; upper incisor series, 17; crown of upper carnassial 



