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white except anteriorly; that ])etween the upper one and the Literal 

 crown stripe forms a large drab-gra}^ triangle between the eye and 

 ear, in which there are but few small black spots. Muzzle, above plain 

 drab-gray, lined on sides with spots of black edged with drab, and 

 plain grayish white posteriorly. Whiskers mostly white, some 

 becoming brownish black at base. Ear with concavity well coated 

 with whitish butf hairs; convexity black anteriorly, grayish white 

 posteriorly, the latter encroaching on the middle of the black area, 

 forming a rounded spot, which, in one individual, is narrowly eiu'ir- 

 cled by black posteriorly, cutting it off from the whitish posterior third 

 of the ear. Outer surface of limbs transversely spotted with l)lack, 

 the spots decreasing in size from within outward, becoming obsolete 

 on the toes. Under parts white, very slightly tinged with ochraceous, 

 the pelage dralj-gray at Ijase; chin and throat, middle of neck, and 

 belly between thighs unspotted. Under side of neck with two trans- 

 verse bands of black slightly mixed with fulvous, interrupted at 

 median line. Hinder part of neck finely spotted with black; chest 

 and belly coarsely spotted, the black spots rounded on chest and trans- 

 versely elongated on abdomen. Inner surface of limbs whitish, trans- 

 versely spotted with black. Under side of feet hair brown, sometimes 

 mixed with hoary. Tail, whitish gray, speckled with black Ijelow; 

 upper surface irregularly barred with light and dark bands, the 

 former grayish white, the latter drab gray, edged with black, and 

 somewhat grizzled; light rings, averaging about ten. 



Shdl and teeth.— Com^^vedi with Felia -pardcdk Linmeus the skull 

 is smaller, relatively short and broad, the interpterygoid fossa averag- 

 ing considerably wider and more quadrate. The audital bulUe are 

 relatively short, and more inflated than in any other form; and the 

 postorbital processes are more flattened and less depressed. The den- 

 tition is relativeh" weak. 



Measuninent^.—K^vXlwrA^: Length, 1,080 mm.; tail vertebra^ 330; 

 length of hind foot, 160; ear above crown, 50. Adult female: Length, 

 950; tail vertebra, 300; hind foot, 115; ear above crown, 50. Skulls: 

 Greatest diameters of largest male, 140 by 93 (basilar length of Hen- 

 sel, 114); largest female, Vl'o by 87. (See table of cranial measure- 

 ments, p. 249.) 



Reinam^. — It is uncertain whether the Ocelot referred to by Dr. 

 Richard Harlan and other early writers as occurring in Arkansas and 

 Louisiana was precisely the same as the present form. Harlan^ 

 observes as follows: ^'Inhabits Mexico, and the south-western parts of 

 the United States, particularly Louisiana; also observed by Mr. Nuttall 

 in the Arkansa territory; vid. Travels into the Arkansa territory, page 

 118. Not known to exist east of the Mississippi." Pucheran's colored 



^Description of the ^lammiferous Animals Inhabiting North America, 1825, 

 p. 98. 



