144 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



She has sometimes made her escape from confinement, and 

 exhibited a power of climbing trees with great ease and activity. 

 She has occasionally committed considerable havoc in the 

 poultry-yard, and has more than once greatly alarmed a horse 

 by jumping on its back in the stable. In this last feat, how- 

 ever, the Ocelot seemed to be actuated rather by a desire for 

 society than the love of mischief, for she coiled herself up on 

 the hind-quarter, evidently with the view of effecting a settle- 

 ment for the purpose of repose ; but the plunging of the horse 

 induced her to use her claws to render her seat more secure. 

 Upon this the steed, as might be expected, redoubled his 

 exertions to dislodge the enemy, and the Ocelot was at last 

 thrown, receiving in her descent a kick which she never forgot, 

 for it has been observed that, on seeing a horse, she immediately 



betakes herself to her den A few days before her 



departure from Liverpool to London, she occasioned a serious 

 alarm. Being secured by a long chain in front of a cottage 

 door, she suddenly threw down a young girl of four years old, 

 and, to the horror of the beholders, appeared to seize the child 

 by the throat. This was, however, intended merely as play, for 

 neither her sharp teeth nor crooked talons inflicted the slightest 

 injury, and, after tumbling over each other more than once, 

 the child was taken up severely frightened, but no way hurt." 



XXIII. THE TIGER-CAT. FELIS TIGRINA. 



Felis tigrina, Schreber, Saugethiere, vol. iii. p. ioo (1778); 

 Elliot, Monogr. Felidse, pi. xviii. (1878-83); Alston, in 

 Godm. and Salv. Biol. Centr. Amer. Mamm. p. 61 

 (18S0); Mivart, The Cat, p. 409 (1881). 



Felis mi/is, F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm. vol. ii. pi. 137 (1820); 

 Matschie, S.B. Nat. Fr. Berlin, 1894, p. 59. 



Felis chati, H. Smith, in Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. v. 

 p. 479 (1827). 



Felis macrura } Neuwied, Beitr, Naturg. Bras. vol, '. p. 371 (1836). 



