96 FAUNA AMERICANA. 



Dimensions. Total length, four feet seven 

 inches ; length of the tail, two feet two inches ; 

 heisfht of the bodv, two feet six inches. 



Description. Proportions thick and clumsy; 

 hairs short, strong, compact, silky, and rather 

 longer on the inferior parts of the body ; base of 

 the fur yellowish, and covered with spots either 

 entirely black, or yellow encircled with black; 

 those of the first sort existing only on the head, 

 tail, extremities and under part of the body ; in- 

 terior of the ear, white ; exterior black, with a 

 white spot; commissure of the lips, black, as is 

 also the end of the tail ; four mammae. 



Habit. Living in swampy forests; retiring into 

 dens during the day ; they are very fierce, will 

 attack dogs and destroy large domestic animals ; 

 they climb trees like cats; bringing forth two 

 young at a birth. 



Inhabit Brazil, Paraguay, Mexico and United 

 States, (south-western teri'itory,) occasionally 

 found east of the Mississippi. 



Species. 



3. Felis pardalis, Linn. Erxleb. Bodd. Ocelot, 

 Buff. hist. nat. t. 1.3. pi. 35. No. 36. Shaw, Gen. 

 Zool. V. 1. part. 1. pi. 88. fig. (Encycl. pi. 93. fig. 

 2.) Spotted mountain cat. 



Char. Essent. General colour gray, marked 

 with large fawn coloured spots, bordered with 



