NO. 1286. THE OCELOT CATS— MEARNS. 241 



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As to the individual which we have de><crihed, it waw a male, from the State of 

 Arkansaw, in Louisiana, which had been given to our menagerie by M. Trudau. 

 Nothing proves to us that this species inha))its Brazil, and as the application of the 

 name cited above \_Felh (irdsiliensin Fr. Cuvier] carries with it an error, we think it 

 legitimate, until we have further information, to substitute for it the denomination 

 Albescent Cat {Felis albe.'<cc'ii.'<), a name which recalls to memory the whitish tint of 

 the pelage. 



It thus became a .synon}^!! of 7^V/.y hraslllensis Fr. C'lnior, 1S2S. 

 Minimus (Felis pardalis). Wilson, 1860. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 82. 



Unidentifiable. ''•It was obtained in Realejo, Nicaragua, in the 

 month of December, 1858. At that tinie it w^as too j'oung to eat any- 

 thing except milk.'' 



Pardoides (Felis). J. E. Gray, 1867. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 403; Cat. 

 Cam. Mamm., 1869, p. 20, s]>. 5. (Tropical America.) 



Unidentifiable. 

 Ludoviciana (Panthera). Fitzingek, 1869. Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 LIX, p. 258. 



An unidentifiable composite, based on a miscellaneous compilation.^ 



Jardinii (Panthera). Fitzingek, 1869. Sitzungsber. Akad. AViss. Wien, LIX, 

 p. 263. 

 This is the Felis jxirdalls of Jardine,'"^ which can not be positively 

 identified. 



Hamiltonii (Panthera). Fitzingek, 1869. Sitzungsber. Akad. Wies. Wien, LIX, 

 p. 265. 

 This is the Ocelot No. 2 of Major Smith, in Griffith's Animal King- 

 dom, II, 1827, p. 476, from South America. 



Griffithii (Panthera). Fitzingek, 1869. ' Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LIX, 

 p. 266. 

 This is Major Smith's Ocelot No. 8, from Mexico. Perhaps iden- 

 tical with Felis jxtrdal Is Linnwus. 



Limitis (Felis). Me.\rns, 1901. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XIV, Aug. 9, 

 1901, p. 146. (Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas.). 



See below. 



The species which 1 am able to recognize, at present, are descrilied 

 as follows: 



FELIS LIMITIS Mearns. 



RIO GRANDE OCELOT. 



1855. Fdis albescens Pucheran, Voyage Venus, Zool., text p. 137; atlas, ])1. 

 viii { = Ferts brasiliensls Fr. Cuvier). (Perhaps in part, as to menagerie 

 specimen from M. Trudau. ) 



1901. Felis Uinilis Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XIV, p. 146, Aug. 9, 

 1901. 



' See Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XIV, Aug. 9, 1901, p. 145. 

 ^Mammal., II, pp. 206, 211, 268, pi. xvi. 

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