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plate of ''a male from the State of Arkansaw, in Louisiana, which 

 had been given to our menagerie [in Pari.s] })}' M, Trudau," .show.s 

 the o-round clay color above, which agrees with I'^elix pardidis l)ut not 

 with F. lunitis. 



FELIS PARDALIS Linnaeus. 



MEXICAN OCELOT. 



1766. Felispardalis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., I, p. 62, sp. 5. 



1816. Felis mexicana Oken, Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte, p. 1054. 



1827. ? Felis catenata Smith, Cxriffith's Animal Kingdom, II, p. 47S, pi. 



1838. 1 Felis canescens Swainson, Animals in Menageries, p. 120, tig. 1 7. 



1842. 1 Felis pseudopardalis Boitard, Le Jardine des Plantes description et moeurs 



des Mammiferes, etc., p. 187. 



1869. ?PantJu'raj<(f<liu!i Fitzixger, Sitzungsber. Akad. Wis^s. Wien, LIX, p. 263. 



1869. 'Wunthera (/rillilliii Fitzinger, Sitznngsber. Akad. AN'iss. Wien, LIX, p. 266. 



Ti/pe locality. — Mexico. 



Geocjriiphlc distrihiction. — Southern and eastern Mexico. (It is 

 uncertain whether this form occurs in northwestern Mexico.) 



General characters. — Decidedly larger than Fells I hit It Is. Ears 

 large. Black markings extended. The ground-color within the black 

 circles contrasts strongly with that outside of them; and the chains 

 of black-bordered inclosures are broken up into patches, which com- 

 monly contain black spots. The skull is relatively narrow; dentition 

 heavA". 



C'o/oT.— There are three principal colors — black markings, ground- 

 color outside the black circles, and color within the circles. The 

 general ground is pale grayish bull'; within the black rings, dark clay 

 color. The pattern of the black markings is simihir to Fells ll/nltls, 

 differing in having the chains of black-edged inclosures broken up 

 into shorter patches, and the longitudinal l)lack neck-stripes more fre- 

 quently double, inclosing clay-colored stripes. On the fore limbs the 

 black markings are disposed in irregular rosettes or rounded spots, 

 while in F. limitls they tend to form transverse bands. The tail-rings 

 contain irregular areas of russet. The gray ear spot is small, and 

 barely reaches the edge of the ear; and there is no distinctly grayish 

 area l)ordering the posterior margin of the ear, as there is in limit is. 

 The coloration as a Avhole is more intense. 



Sh/ll and teeth. — See measurements. 



Meaxurrments. — I have no reliable external measurements of fresh 

 specimens. Skulls — Largest male: Basilar length (Hensel),12;2; zygo- 

 matic breadth, 91. Largest female: Basilar length, 102; zvgomatic 

 breadth, 87. (Sec table of cranial measurements, p. 249.) 



RemnrlxS. — Skins, unaccompanied by skulls, in the collection of the 

 American Museum of Natural History in New York — one from Ari- 

 zona, one from Sonora, and two from the State of Colima, Mexico (the 



