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roving about. Yet we never saw any, although they prowled 

 around us at night, and left their footprints in the snow. The 

 camp (14,762 feet)...». 



Lagerheim informs me, however, that the Puma of Ecua- 

 dor usually is not a dangerous animal, and as a rule it does not 

 attack a man. Intoxicated Indians form, however, some- 

 times an exception. This is of biological interest, because it 

 is evident, that the Puma when seeing the behaviour of a tipsy 

 individual believes him to be sick, and it is a general rule, that 

 sick and wounded beings strongly attract carnivorous animals 

 of all kinds. 



Felis aequatoralis Mearns. 



Mearns: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 25. 1903, p. 246. 



A fine male specimen »from the woods of Gualea, N. W. 

 of Quito, altitude about 5,000 feet». 



Native name »Tigrillo». 



The colour of the above specimen corresponds on the 

 whole with Mearns' description of the type, but the following 

 aberrations may be noted. The ground colour of the lower 

 parts are in this specimen better termed whitish than »smoke 

 gray» (Mearns). On the flanks the black markings form 

 about four series of black rings with inclosed areas of tawny 

 rufous like the ground colour of the back. These rings are often 

 more or less confluent into chains. The interspaces between 

 the lower of these chains are much paler than the inclosed areas, 

 and partly buffish withe. The tail when seen from above 

 appears to be broadly ringed with black bands, with narrow 

 light (buffish grey) interspaces. When seen from below only 

 the five terminal ones (corresponding to the same number 

 mentioned by Mearns) are found to be complete, the anterior 

 ones being disconnected, or at least irregularily and only 

 narrowly connected. 



As Mearns' type was a female the following cranial mea- 

 surements of an adult male may be of interest: 



Greatest length of skull 133 mm. 



Condyloincisive length 123 » 



Basal length 113 » 



