596 MERRIAM 



puma from Chile, the skull is smaller (particularly shorter') and much 

 less massive ; anterior base of coronoid process much less broadly ex- 

 panded ; teeth strikingly smaller throughout — the difference much more 

 marked than in the comparison with co?tcolor. 



Remarks. — Mr. Bangs has sent me two skins with skulls from 

 Colombia. One (the type) is an adult male collected October 8 at 

 Dibulla; the other an adult female collected February 15 in the Santa 

 Marta Mountains. The Santa Marta specimen has narrow ' pinched 

 in ' nasals (the posterior two-thirds abruptly narrower than the anterior 

 third), and differs so strikingly in pelage and markings as to suggest 

 the possibility that it may be subspecifically distinct — a high mountain 

 form perhaps. The ears appear to be longer. The pelage is long and 

 full and has a very different appearance from that of the short smooth 

 coat of the Dibulla specimen. The rusty dorsal area (from head to 

 tail) is broader and darkened by profuse admixture of black hairs ; 

 dull fulvous of sides also strongly mixed with black hairs ; ferruginous 

 of tail continues to black tip ; tip not annulated ; whitish of under- 

 parts much whiter and much more extensive, completely covering 

 inner sides of legs and in foreleg reaching continuously to pads on 

 vmderside of foot ; outer sides of forelegs and feet grayish fulvous in- 

 distinctly vermiculated with brownish. 



Two skulls from Peru, in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 appear to be young-adult males of this species. 



Measurements. — (Female ad. no. 8147 Bangs Coll., from Santa 

 Marta, Colombia, measured in flesh) : Total length 1600 mm. ; tail 

 vertebrae 610; hind foot 225 ; ear 80. 



Cranial measurements. — An ad. $ (the type) ; and an ad. $ (in 

 parentheses) from Santa Marta Mountains, Colombia, both in the 

 Bangs Coll. Basal length 162 (141) ; occipito-nasal length 173 (151) ; 

 zygomatic breadth 128 (i 15) ; occipito-sphenoid length 60 (50) ; post- 

 palatal length 85 (72.5) ; interorbital breadth 37 (31.5) ; upper car- 

 nassial 22 (20). 



FELIS BANGSI COSTARICENSIS subsp. nov. 

 Central American Puma. ; 



Type from Boquete, Chiriqui, Panama (or Costa Rica — the province 



of Chirqui being claimed by both countries). No. 10118 9 ^d. 



Bangs Coll. April 22, 1901. W. W. Brown, Jr. 



Characters. — Similar to F. bangsi but color very much darker and 



redder, particularly on the belly which is red like the sides, with only 



an indistinct narrow whitish line down the middle, barely connecting 



the whitish pectoral and inguinal areas ; fur between foot pads black. 



