FELIS. 449 



CARRIKER'S OCELOT. 



Type locality. Pozo Azul, Pirris Province, Costa Rica. 



Genl. Char. Size small; tail short. 



Color. Nose to end of tail brownish black; sides lighter and more 

 brownish; ventral surface chocolate brown; outer side of limbs dark 

 chocolate brown indistinctly clouded with blackish brown; inner side 

 of limbs like ventral surface indistinctly blotched with darker spots ; 

 ears blackish brown; lips and cheeks blackish; tail above uniform 

 brownish black, sides and beneath lighter, slightly clouded with a 

 darker color. 



Measurements. Total length, 970; tail vertebrae, 276; hind foot, 

 101. Skull: total length, 86; Hensel, 73; zygomatic breadth, 55; 

 interorbital constriction, 16; intertemporal width, 28; middle of brain- 

 case above meatus, 38; length of nasals, 18; anterior width of nasals, 

 ii ; bullae, 18X10; front of canine to posterior border of carnassial, 

 30.5; length of upper carnassial, 19; length of lower carnassial, 7.5; 

 length of mandible, 55; height at condyle, 11.5; at coronoid, 21.5. 



457. tigrina Erxl., Syst. Regn. Anim., I, 1777, p. 517. Elliot, Mon. 

 Felidas, pi. xix. 



mitis F. Cuv., Hist. Nat. Mamm., n, 1820, pi. 137. 



macroura Max., Beitr. Naturg. Bras., n, 1826, p. 371. 



chati Griff., Anim. King., n, 1827, p. 479. 



brasiliensis F. Cuv., Hist. Nat. Mamm., n, 1820, pi. 139. 



elegans Less., Cent. Zool., 1830, p. 69, pi. 21. 

 THE MARGAY. Cauzel in Costa Rica. 



Type locality. Unknown. "South America." 



Geogr. Distr. Honduras to Paraguay. 



Genl. Char. Nasals broad, narrowing rapidly posteriorly; audital 

 bullae large, swollen; infraorbital foramen oblong; canines moderate. 



Color. Very variable. General color light rufous brown; four 

 narrow brownish black lines, two from between, and two from the 

 corner of the eyes, pass over the top of the head to the base of the 

 neck, where they become broader and black; a line of white between 

 the nose and eyes; two narrow brown lines cross the cheek from the 

 eye and meet another irregular dark brown line passing across the 

 side of the throat under the jaw. Cheek, throat, breast, and belly 

 have the ground color white; the entire body, back, sides, and belly 

 thickly covered with round brownish black spots, forming lines on 

 the back; the breast is crossed by four or five irregular brownish 

 black lines; legs spotted like the back, the spots reaching nearly to 

 the feet on the fore legs, but only to the heels on the hind ones; tail 

 long, covered with black spots like those of the body, and inclining 



