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per one and the lateral crown stripe forms a larye clrab-iiTay trianii'lc. 

 between the eye and ear. in which thei'e are but few small black spots. 

 Muzzle, above plain drab-^ray, lined on sides with spots of black edged with 

 drab, and jtlain lirayish white posteriorly. Whiskers mostly white, some 

 becomiui;' brownish black at base. Ear with concavity well coated with 

 whitish-butf hairs: convexity black anteriorly, "irayish white posteriorly, 

 the latter encroaching- on the middle of the black area, forming;' a 

 rounded sjiot, which, in one indisidual. is narrowly encii-cled b\' black 

 posteriorly, cutting- it off from the whitish posterior third of the ear. 

 Outer surface of limbs transversely spotted with black, the spots de- 

 creasing in size from within outward, becoming obsolete on the toes. 

 Underparts while, very slightly tinged with ochraceous, the pelage drab- 

 gray at base: chin and throat, middle of neck, and belly between 

 .thighs, unspotted. Under side of neck with two transverse bands of 

 black slightly mixed with fulvous, interrupted at median line. Hinder 

 part of upck finely spotted with black: chest and belly coarsely spotted, 

 the black .spots rounded on chest and transversely elongated on abdo- 

 men. Inner surface of limbs, whitish. trans\ei'sely s])otted with black. 

 Under side of feet, hair brown, sometimes mixed with hoary. Tail, 

 whitish gray, speckled with black below: upjier surface irregularly 

 barred with light and dark bands, the former grayish white, the latter 

 drab-gray, edged with black, and somewhat grizzled: light rings averag- 

 ing about ten. 



The description of color is based on .skins from Fort Clark and 

 Brownsville, Texas. Six from the latter locality were kindly loaned me 

 by Doctor C. Hart ]\Ierriam. Chief of the Biological Survey, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture. These specimens are quite similar except 

 that one immature female (No. 32.()S1) is remarkable for intensity of the 

 black markings. All were killed in February and March. The summer 

 pelage api)ears to be more tawny than that of winter: but the available 

 summer skins are uni-eliable. ha\"ing been immersed in a tiuid that has 

 probably changed the color. For the same reason, no satisfactory com- 

 l)arison of coloration can now be made with Fiiis paradalis. 



S/i'u/l ami tectli. — Compared with Felix paradalis Linn;eus the skull 

 of F. liiiiifix is smaller, relatively short and broad, the postpalatal fossa 

 averaging considerably wider and more quadrate, the audital bulhe 

 much broader and more inflated, and the postorbital proce.sses more 

 flattened and less depressed. The skull of the type, an old male of 

 maximum size, measures as follows: basilar length (Hensel), 114 mm.: 

 zygomatic breadth, !)3; width of audital bulla, 17: length of upper lat- 

 eral toothrow. measured on alveoli. 40; upper premolar series, 28; upper 

 incisor series. I."): crown of upper carnassial tooth, I.1.8 by 7.8; crown of 

 middle upper ])rem()lar, 10 by 5: lower lateral toothrow, 45. A younger, 

 nearly adult male (No. 708:), U. S. National Museum), from Mirador, 

 Mexico, is considered to represent Felis pardulix Linnteus, and presents the 

 following dimensions: basilar length, 122; zygomatic breadth, 91; width 

 of audital bulla, 16; length of upper lateral toothrow, 43.5; upper pre- 

 molar series, 30: upper incisor series, 17: crown of upper carnassial 



