FELIS. 451 



Color. Ground color dark clay color; usual black lines on head 

 and nape, but median nectral line not present; black line on lower 

 back flanked by rosettes; chin dull whitish; under surface brownish 

 clay color, as are also the feet; tail with broad black rings above, 

 clay color beneath, with indistinct black rings; tip black. 



Measurements. Total length, 795; tail, 290; hind foot, 105; ear, 

 39. No skull preserved. 



459. jaguarondi (Fclis), Fisch., Zoogn., 1814, p. 228. Elliot, Mon. 



Felidae, pi. xin. Id. Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 295. 

 JAGUARONDI. Leon monero, Leon miquero, in Costa Rica. 



Type locality. Paraguay. 



Geogr. Distr. Rio Grande, Texas, southward to Paraguay, east 

 of Andes. 



Genl. Char. Body elongate; legs short; tail as long as body 

 without head. 



Color. General color grizzled brownish gray; hairs annulated 

 and black-tipped; tail like body; some specimens black with rufous 

 tinge, tips of hairs white. 



Measurements. Total length, 678; tail vertebrae, 365. Skull: 

 occipito-nasal length, 96.5; Hensel, 86; zygomatic width, 64; inter- 

 orbital constriction, 29; at posterior processes, 44; mastoid width, 39; 

 median length of nasals, 19; length of upper tooth row, 20; length 

 of mandible, 55; height at coronoid process, 28; length of lower tooth 

 row, 22. 



a. *cacomitU Berlandier in Baird, Rep. U. S. & Mex. Bound. 



Surv., 1857, n, Mamm., p. 12. 

 GRAY JAGUARONDI. 



Type locality. Matamoros, State of Tamaulipas, Mexico. 



Genl. Char. Color gray. 



Color. Summer Pelage. Nearly uniform smoky gray, or pepper- 

 and-salt gray with under fur whitish gray, the over hairs ringed with 

 white, buff, and black, and tipped with black; under parts paler; 

 light buffy gray bordering the blackish orbital ring, and on chin and 

 throat; a narrow blackish line between eyes, and another between 

 ears; tail beneath whitish' smoke gray. 



Winter Pelage. Darker, with more black on back; otherwise 

 similar to the summer coat. 



Measurements. Total length, 1060; tail vertebrae, 480; hind foot, 

 140; ear above crown, 40. Skull: Hensel, 95; zygomatic breadth, 70; 



*A gray phase of F. jaguarondi, probably an individual peculiarity, and 

 no doubt found among members of the same litter, as is witnessed among the 

 young of screech owls, Otus asio,'m thesamcnest. (See the Auk, 1903, pp. 272-76 

 for use of genus Otus.) 



