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to Nos. 2 and 3, of which No. 2 came from South America and No. 8 

 from Mexico. In 1838 Swainson named the Mexican "Ocelot No. 3" 

 Fells ciwesoeris, which finally restricted the name ocdot to Smith's 

 "Ocelot No. 2." As numerous names have been applied to the four 

 forms which Major Smith tio-uredas Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, and described, 

 successively, under the name Felts ocelot^ a statement of the earliest 

 available name for each is yiven, as follows: 



Felis ocelot Smith 



rOcelot No. 1 . 

 Ocelot No. 2. 



Ocelot No. 3. 

 Ocelot No. 4. 



From South America. 



From Mexico , 



r No. 1. Felis ddbigouazou 

 I (xriffith, 1827. 

 I No. 2. Felis ocelot Smitli, 

 [ 1827. 



I No. 3. Felis canescens Swain- 

 I son, 1838. 



No. 4. Felis purdalis Lin- 

 lueus, 1766. 



The name Felis ocelot is thus restricted by elimination to the form 

 "Ocelot No. 2." If identical with the Chibic^ouazou of Azara, from 

 Paraguay, as surmised by Major Smith, it belonos to a form not rep- 

 resented in the collections which I have examined, and is probably 

 entitled to recognition, as Smith's figure of his Ocelot No. 2 is unlike 

 the Brazilian specimens seen by me. 



Catenata (Felis). Smith, 1827. Griffith's Animal Kingdom, II, p. 478, pi. 



The author (Smith) had seen two specimens. This Ocelot was sup- 

 posed by some writers to have come from Mexico, although Swainson 

 gives the following: ^ 



Major Smith was the lirst naturalist who made us acquainted with this very ele- 

 gant ocelot, which had probably been in some of our menageries unknown to science, 

 and subsequently found its way into Bullock's INIuseum, where this acute observer 

 detected it. He also met with another specimen in the Berlin Museum, and made it 

 known to the Prussian professors. 



I am unable to identify this animal. It may have been the 3"oung 

 of Felis pardalis Linna?us, although the describer states that the teeth 

 showed it to be adult. 



Chibigouazou (Felis). Griffith, 1827. Animal Kingdom, V, 167, No. 431. 



This is the "Felis Ocelot No. 1" of Maj. Charles Hamilton Smith. 

 It is the etirliest available name for the Ocelot w'nch I have redescribed 

 from Chapada, Brazil, with which Smith's plate figure and description 

 closely agree. 



Brasiliensis (Felis). Fr. Ccvier, 1828. Nat. Hist. Mamm., July, 1S28, pi. lviii. 



Described from a caged specimen from the island of Cuba, supposed 

 to have been brought there on shipboard from Brazil. Probably 

 identical with Felis chihigouazou Griffith. Name preoccupied by Felis 

 brasiliensis Schfnz, Thierreich, 1821, applied to the Black Jaguar. 



Animals in Menageries, 1838, p. 125, fig. 19. 



