258 rev. kt mag, dezooi-OGif. [Septembre 1 8G5 .) 



for llie length of its tail.The head issmal) and short. The 

 ground color oftheupper parts oflhebody ispalefawn, 

 beautifully marked by about five sries of spots on each 

 side : those nearest ihe back are entirely deep black , 

 but on the sides they are more oblong, and become ocel- 

 latedor ringed ; whileon theshoulders they take the form 

 of three wawed perpendieular ocellated stripes ; the 

 <( legs are banded bysmall transversc spots nearly round. 

 Ml the ander parts are white, and covered with small 

 black spots, except the throat, which is covered by two 

 black lines : the cheecks are white; marked by black 

 stripes : four ther stripes are also on the back of the 

 neck, two of which commence from the eyes : chin 

 white and unspotler, ta il eieven inches long, and rin- 

 ger with dnsky white and black. The whole animal al- 

 <( tends but six inches hight ; and measurs, with the tail, 

 two feet ten inches in extrme lengih. (Animais in M- 

 nagerie, p. 118.) 



Cette description convient en tous points notre Feis 

 Mexicana; la seule divergence que nous y trouvons, c'est 

 que, dans notre type, les taches du dos sont allonges en 

 forme de bandes et que celles des cts sont ovales, tan- 

 dis que Swainson dit que les taches des cts sont plus 

 oblongues que celles du dos, ce qui voudrait dire plus al- 

 longes. Nanmoins nous pensons que notre espce se 

 confond avec celle de Swainson. 



Voici maintenant la description que Smith a donne 

 de son Ocelot n 3, que Swainson rapporte la mme es- 

 pce : 



lt issmaller than the F. mtis o Paraguay, and lias the 

 nose, forehead, neck, back, shoulders, fore part of tho 

 fore legs, andrumpashy, mixed withochrey; thestreack 

 from the inner angle of the eyes lo the cars lias only 

 one row of spots wiihin it : the long open spots on the 

 neck and back are shorler, less diverging, fulvous wi- 

 thin,biil\vithoutanyspoton the fulvous; on thefore legs 



