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and east through Tabasco, Chiapas, and Guatemala to Honduras (Balfate). 

 Recorded also at Tekom, Yucatan, and Sibun River, British Honduras (Hersh- 

 kovitz, Fieldiana-Zool., Chicago Nat. Hist. Mus. Publ. 670, vol. 31, p. 564, July 

 10,1951). 



Felis partialis mearnsi J. A. Allenf * 



1902. Felis costaricensis Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, p. 245, Sept. 



17, 1902. (Not Felis bangsi costaricensis Merriam, 1901. ) 

 1904. Felis mearnsi J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol 20, p. 71, 



Feb. 29, 1904. (Substitute for costaricensis Mearns.) 

 1909. Felis pardalis mearnsi Lyon and Osgood, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 62, 



p. 208, Jan. 28, 1909. 

 1941. Leopardus pardalis mearnsi Pocock, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ. 511, 



Zool. Ser., vol. 27, p. 339, Dec. 8, 1941. 

 Type Locality. — Talamanca, Limon, Costa Rica. Range. — Panama, Costa 

 Rica, and Nicaragua. 



Felis pardalis nelsoni Goldmanf * 



1925. Felis pardalis nelsoni Goldman, Journ. Mamm., vol. 6, No. 2, p. 122, 

 May 12, 1925. 



Type Locality. — Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico. Altitude, 50 feet. Range. — 

 Pacific coastal lowlands and western slope of mountains of interior from south- 

 ern Oaxaca (Puerto Angel) north to southern Sinaloa (Escuinapa). 



Felis pardalis sonoriensis Goldmanf* 



1925. Felis pardalis sonoriensis Goldman, Journ. Mamm., vol. 24, No. 3, p. 378, 



Aug. 17, 1925. 

 1941. Leopardus pardalis griseus Pocock, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ. 511, 

 Zool. Ser., vol. 27, p. 346, Dec. 8, 1941. (Leopardus griseus Gray, Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 10, p. 260, December 1842, antedates Felis pardalis 

 sonoriensis according to Pocock. Goldman, Journ. Mamm., vol. 24, No. 3, 

 p. 376, Aug. 17, 1943, places Leopardus griseus Gray in the synonymy of 

 Felis pardalis pardalis.) 

 Type Locality. — Camoa, Rio Mayo, Sonora, Mexico. Altitude, 800 feet. 

 Range. — Warmer western slopes of Sierra Madre from southern Sonora, and 

 probably northern Sinaloa, north to southeastern Arizona; formerly as far north 

 as Fort Verde, Ariz.; absent in arid plains region of western Sonora. 



Felis pardalis albescens Pucheran* 



1855. Felis albescens Pucheran, in I. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, Mammiferes, in 



Petit-Thouars, Voyage autour du monde sur ... la Venus . . . , Zoologie, 



text p. 149, atlas pi. 8. 

 1901. Felis limitis Mearnsf, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 14, p. 146, 



Aug. 9, 1901. (Brownsville, Cameron County, Tex.) 

 1906. Felis pardalis albescens J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 22, 



p. 219, July 25, 1906. 

 1911. Felis ludoviciana Brass, Aus dem Reiche der Pelze, p. 411, April 1911. 



(Alternative for limitis.) 



