Order VII. Camivora. 



Fam. I. Felidae. 



D. G. Elliot. Monograph of the Felida, Folio, London, i8j8-8j. 

 St. G. Mivart. The Cat., London, j88r. 



Claws retractile, long, sharp, curved, compressed; feet digiti- 

 grade, five toes on fore feet, four on hind; soles hairy; pads naked; 

 tongue covered with sharp, horny-like papillie pointing backward; 

 onlj' one true molar on each side above and below, and two inferior 

 premolars; upper carnassial, (posterior premolar), very large, with a 

 tri-lobed blade and a small inner tubercle with separate root; lower 

 carnassial, (true molar), a large, compressed sharp blade with two 

 subecjual lobes, without inner cusp; canines long, curved, acute, 

 edges trenchant. Skull short, broad, facial portion short; zygomata 

 very wide, arched; bulla; large, smooth. Clavicles not articulating 

 with scapulas or sternum. 



70. Felis. 



I. 1=3; C. i=I; P. tJ. M. I^ = 30. 



3—3' 1— l' 2-j' I— I J 



Felis. Linn. Syst., 1766, i, p. 60. Type F. leo. 



Lynx. Raf. Am. Month. Mag., 1817, i, p. 437. 



Lynchus. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1867, p. 276. 



Tail long, exceeding half the length of body without head and 

 neck; anterior premolar small. 



442. concolor. {Felis), Linn., Mantiss., 1771, p. 522. 



discolor, Schreb. Siiugth., 1778, iii, tab. 104 B. 

 puma, Shaw, Gen. Zool., 1830, p. 358, pi. cxxxix. 

 floridana, Corj', Hunt & Fish. Florida, i8g6, p. 109. 



coryi. Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1899, p. 15. 



Type locality. Brazil. 



Geogr. Dis/r. Canada from 50° north to Gulf of Mexico, and 

 westward to Wyoming, probably to the Pacific coast. 



Genl. Char. Size. large; body long, legs short; tail more than 

 half the length of body and head; young spotted. 



Color. Variable, upper parts from yellowish to reddish brown; 



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