REVISION OF THE PUMAS 597 



Measurements . — (Type specimen, 9 ? measured in flesh) Total 

 length 1680 mm. ; tail vertebrae 6S0; hind foot 220; ear 75. 



Remarks. — The U. S. National Museum contains two skins from 

 Costa Rica, presented by the World's Fair Costa Rica Commission in 

 1893. In both of these the whitish pectoral and inguinal regions are 

 suffused with dirty yellowish brown, which may be due to immersion 

 in pickle. The skull of one of these (the female, No. 61 193 U. S. 

 National Museum) agrees essentially with the skull of the type speci- 

 men except that the nasals are longer, and with the female bangsi from 

 the Santa Marta Mountains, except that the nasals are not narrowed as 

 in that specimen. The skull labeled as belonging to the skin of the 

 male (No. 61 194) has the middle upper premolar and carnassial greatly 

 swollen and presents other characters which lead to the suspicion that 

 it really has nothing to do with this skin, but probably came from some 

 other region. This view is the more probable since the skull of a 

 fully adult male from Pacuare, Costa Rica (No. 15967 U. S. Nat. 

 Mviseum) agrees closely with the type specimen of batigsi (a male 

 from Dibulla, Colombia) and, allowing for normal sexual differences, 

 with the female from Costa Rica. In this connection it may be stated 

 that the lower carnassials in females of bangsi and costaricensis are 

 surprisingly small. 



FELIS PUMA Molina. Andean Puma. 



Felis puma Molina, Saggio sulla storia Naturale del Chili, pp. 295-297, 1782. 



Type locality. — Chile. 



Characters. — Size large ; color gray or grayish instead of fulvous. 

 According to Molina the animal has a mane. Skull and teeth large 

 and massive. 



Color. — Upperparts " ash-colored with a sprinkling of yellowish 

 . . . underparts whitish." — Molina. The skin of the head of a speci- 

 men from Santiago, Chile (No. \%\%\ $ young, U. S. Nat. Museum) 

 has the nose and face brownish gray, becoming pale dull fulvous on 

 top of head ; upper eyelid, lips and chin yellowish white ; ears grayish, 

 mixed with black hairs at base and toward tip but without distinct 

 dark spot ; a small blackish streak on upper lip just below whiskers ; 

 occiput and back of neck dull grizzled grayish fulvous. 



Cranial characters. — Skull and teeth large and massive; 2d pre- 

 molar, above and below, much larger than in any other known species 

 of the group; inner tubercle (protocone) of upper carnassial very 

 large. The skull of a young male from Santiago, Chile (No. 36851 U. 

 S. National Museum), contrasted with an adult male of concolor from 



