446 FELIS. 



*onea ce.ntralis (Fclis), Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiv, 1901, 



P- 139- 

 COSTA RICA JAGUAR. Tigrc in Spanish America for all Jaguars. 



Type locality. Talamanca, Costa Rica. 



Geogr. Distr. Costa Rica north to Honduras, Central America. 



Genl. Char. Smallest of the Jaguars ; dentition weak ; colors intense. 



Color. Clay color with a median chain of black spots, bordered 

 on each side by five longitudinal rows of black rosettes; these lateral 

 rosettes increase in size as they go toward the belly, and contain 

 from one to five small black spots. Crown and sides of neck tawny, 

 covered with black spots or rosettes; black spot on upper and lower 

 lip; ears outside black with tawny spot in middle, inner side clay 

 color, tawny on margin; limbs on outer side clay color blotched with 

 black; under parts buffy white blotched with black; tail clay color 

 above, heavily spotted and banded with black, beneath whitish 

 blotched with black; muzzle clay color; claws horn color. 



Measurements. Total length, 1800; tail, 575; hind foot, 220; ear 

 from crown, 60; (skin.) Skull: occipito-nasal length, 240; Hensel, 

 197; zygomatic width, 153; width of antorbital processes, 75; median 

 length of nasals, 64; palatal length from alveoli of incisors, 95 ; length 

 of basi-occipital, 36; width between bulls posteriorly, 40; length of 

 sectorial, 26; length of lower tooth row, 53; lower last molar, 20. 

 (Type.) 



onca hernandezi (Felis), Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1857, p. 278. 



hernandezi (Felis), Elliot, Mon. Felida?, pi. v, F. onca, rear figure. 

 HERNANDEZ'S JAGUAR. 



Type locality. Mazatlan, State of Sinaloa, Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. Apparently western Mexico, from State of Colima 

 north to San Bias. 



Genl. Char. Color pale; black markings small; rosettes confined 

 to upper portion of middle dorsal region. 



Color. Ochraceous buff, covered with scattered single black 

 spots, except behind the shoulders, where they are gathered into 

 rosettes; ears, as in other jaguars, black with buff center externally; 

 under parts buffy white banded with elongate black spots; tail 

 above ochraceous buff, beneath grayish white striped and banded 

 with black. 



*The Jaguars, like the species of most genera, have been "split" into vari- 

 ous races of the typical form, some of which are here given. The wisdom of 

 this method, carried as it often is to great extremes, is very questionable, espe- 

 cially with animals like these cats, that vary so greatly, even among individ- 

 uals from the same locality, that it is practically impossible to find two alike. 

 It is doubtful, as knowledge of these animals increases, if many of the races 

 can maintain anv kind of a distinctive rank. 



