12 FELin.i:. 



Var. 1. 



Leopardus llemandesii, Gmij, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 278, t. 18; 1867, 

 p. 402; Blainv. Osteogr. Felis, t. 3. 



Hah. South America. 



Pupil round. — Burtlett. 



Skull — nasals broad, tlicir hinder end and the back edge of maxillic 

 nearly in a line ; forehead convex ; nose broad, flat above ; orbit 

 with a promineuce in the middle of the front or nasal edge. Length 

 9 inches, width 6 inches. 



Var. 2. Black. Skull, length t)| inches, width (ij inches. 

 Felis nigra, Erxl. 



Hah. Brazil. 



The skull of the Jaguar {Fells onca, Linn.) is known from the 

 skulls of all the other species of the genus Leopardus, and from the 

 Lion and the Tiger, by having a distinct, but more or less deTelojjed, 

 tubercle (probably for the attachment of one of the muscles of the 

 eyeball) on the middle of the inner or nasal edge of the orbit ; and 

 there is also a well-marked half-ovate notch in the middle of the 

 truncated front edge of the internaljiostril, which is not so distinctly 

 developed in other large feline anin« 



The specimen which I described ii^Wer the name of Leopardus 

 Hernandesii in the Proc. Zool. Soc. (ll|^, p. 278, Mamni. t. 58), 

 from Mexico, has come into the British Ifcuseum collection ; and I 

 cannot find any difference in the skull to^3istinguish it from the 

 other specimens of the Jaguar ; so I suppose^t must be considered 

 one of the varieties of that species, marked ^' the distance at 

 which the small spots are placed from each other, only now and 

 then forming anything hke a distinct ring or row of spots. 



tt Large one-coloured Cats. 



5. Leopardus auratus. B.M. 



Felis am-ata, Tcmm. 



Felis chrysotbrix, Tennn. 



Felis moormensis et F. mimnensis, Hodgson. 



Jtmior. Felis Temmiuckii, Vigors. 



Leopardus auratus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 265. 



Hcdj. Himalaya, Sumatra ; Borneo. 

 Pupil round. — Hodgson. 



6. Leopardus concolor. B.M. 



Felis concolor, Linn. 



Felis discolor, Schreb. 



Felis puma, Shaw. 



Felis fulva, Brisson. 



Pimia, Penn. 



Leopardus concolor, Grag, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 265. 



Blainv. Osteogr. Felis, t. 6; Baird, Mam. N. A. t. 71 (skull). 



