FELIS. 447 



Measurements. Total length, 1900; tail, 650 (skin). Skull: 

 basal length, 181; zygomatic breadth, 156-159; mastoid breadth, 95; 

 interorbital breadth, 45-46; width of postorbital processes, 70-72; 

 postorbital breadth, 45-50; median length of nasals, 53-55; greatest 

 breadth of nasals, 36-37; foramen magnum to posterior margin of 

 palate, 90; posterior margin of palate to middle incisor, 87-91; 

 length of upper tooth row, 71-72 ; crown of upper carnassial, 25. 8x 13 ; 

 length of mandible, 150-154; height of mandible, 67-72. 



onca goldmani (Felis), Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiv, 1901, 



P- 142. 

 GOLDMAN'S JAGUAR. 



Type locality. Yohatlan, State of Campeche, Mexico. 



Gcogr. Distr. Unknown. 



Genl. Char. Similar to F. o. hernandezi, but of a deeper color and 

 larger black markings. 



Color. Above tawny ochraceous heavily spotted with black, a 

 chain of black spots forming nearly a complete dorsal stripe; rosettes 

 on dorsal area much larger in size; under parts buffy white, banded 

 with elongate black spots; tail mainly black above, this hue predomi- 

 nating on under side also; ears black with tawny central spot, creamy 

 buff within. 



Measurements. Total length, 1910; tail, 670 (skin). Skull: 

 Hensel, 211-227; zygomatic breadth, 178-180; mastoid breadth, 

 111-113; interorbital constriction, 49-50; width of postorbital pro- 

 cesses, 74-75; median length of nasals, 62-67; greatest breadth of 

 nasals, 43-48; length of premolar series, 52-54; crown of upper car- 

 nassial, 27 x 14; length of interpterygoid fossa, 35-36. 



455. pardalis (Felis), Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 42; i, 1766, p. 

 62. Elliot Mon. Felidae, pi. xvm, text; Id. Syn. N. Am. 

 Mamm., 1901, p. 294. 

 *limitis Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiv, 1901, p. 146. 



*This seems to be a pale individual of F '. pardalis, such as is not infrequently 

 seen in a series of specimens from a single locality. Color in this most vari- 

 able species has but little specific value. The type in the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum. Washington, has been examined. Dr. Mearns states that the pattern 

 of this form is never exactly the same on any two specimens. Some twenty 

 years ago, when writing in the Monograph of the Felidae on the Ocelots, after 

 an exhaustive examir.ation of all the specimens then contained in the great 

 European Museums, as well as in those of this country, I was constrained to 

 say, regarding the coloration and patterns of the Ocelot, that, "to vary from 

 each other in the hue and arrangement of the spots and stripes of their coats 

 seems to be one of the chief efforts of the existence of these cats, and as if 

 not content with differing from his fellows, an Ocelot usually succeeds in exhib- 

 iting a distinct pattern on each of his sides, so that he may be said to differ 

 from himself." It will be, therefore, extremely easy to split the pardalis 

 group into any number of so-called subspecies, or even species, but very diffi- 

 cult to make them generallv recognizable by Mammalogists. The type of 

 F. limitis, so far as its color is concerned, dots not resemble the F. albcscens, 

 Pucheran . 



