144 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
She has sometimes made her escape from confinement, and 
exhibited a power of climBffg 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 tgrina, Schreber, Saugethiere, vol. iii. p. 100 (1778); 
Elliot, Monogr. Felide, pl. xviii. (1878-83); Alston, in 
Godm. and Salv. Biol. Centr. Amer. Mamm. p. 61 
(1880); Mivart, The Cat, p. 409 (1881). 
Felis mitis, ¥. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm. vol. ii. pl. 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, ii. p. 371 (1836). 
