THE JAGUARONDI. 151 



Felts unieolor, Traill, Mem. Wern. Soc. vol. iii. p. 170 (18 19). 

 Felis yagouarondi, Desmarest, Mammalogie, p. 230 (1820). 

 Felis yaguarundi, Wagn. Suppl. Schreb. Saug. 11, p. 41, pi. 



ciii. B ; Alston, in Godm. and Salv. Biol. Centr. Amer, 



Mamm. p. 63 (1880). 

 Felis darwiniiy Martin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, p. 3. 

 Leopardus yagouarondi. Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 42 



(I843)- 

 Felis calomi/li, Baird, N. Amer. Mamm. pi. 74 (1859). 



Characters. — Of relatively small size, this species is readily 

 distinguished by its uniform coloration, which is generally 

 blackish- or brownish-grey, with a tendency to a reddish or 

 greyish phase in some specimens ; the lower parts of the 

 limbs being blackish. The body is long, the limbs short, and 

 the tail much elongated, the head being also long and low, 

 Blackish-grey at their bases, the hairs are black in the middl 

 and greyish at their extremities. Female skins are reported to 

 be lighter and brighter in colour than those of males. Pupil 

 of eye circular when contracted. Skull elongated and flattened, 

 with the nasal region very strongly compressed. Length of 

 head and body, about 30 inches; of tail, 25 inches. 



Distribution. — Brazil, Paraguay, Guiana, to North-eastern 

 Mexico. 



Habits. — According to Azara, the names " Jaguarondi " (or 

 " Yaguarundi") and "Eyra" are applied indifferently in Paraguay 

 to the present species and the one here described under the 

 latter title; and it is accordingly merely a matter of con- 

 venience that the two names are respectively assigned to the 

 two species by naturalists. The same naturalist writes : "I 

 have never seen the Yaguarundi except in Paraguay and the 

 Guaranese missions, where I procured two specimens precisely 

 similar ; experienced persons have assured me that they were 

 adults, that the sexes only differed in the male being rather the 



