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came tolerably well peopled, and there are fewer plains, it 
was probably exterminated by the inhabitants. I caught four 
on the pampas of Buenos Aires, between the 35th and 36th 
parallels of latitude, and three others on the Rio Negro, 
without any of them retreating to caves. I know not whether 
this was owing to there being none at hand, or that they have 
a natural dislike to them. On one occasion in April, I took 
from the uterus of a female Paja-Cat a single young one, with | 
hair just commencing to grow; it is said, notwithstanding, 
that they bring forth two, and even three, at a birth. They — 
subsist on the same food as the other species, principally on 
Apereas (Cavies).” 
XXXIV. THE COLOCOLO. FELIS COLOCOLO. 
felis colocolo, A. Smith, in Griffith’s Animal Kingdom, vol. ii. 
p- 479 (1827); Mivart, The Cat, p. 413 (1881); Matschie, 
5.B. Nat. Fr. Berlin, 1894, p. 60. 
felis strigtlata, Wagner, in Schreber’s Saiigethiere, Suppl. vol. 
li. p. 546 (1841). 
(Plate XXT.) 
Characters.—Although by previous writers the Colocolo of 
the western side of South America has been widely sundered 
from the Pampas Cat, the two are, according to Herr Matschie, 
very closely related. Indeed, that observer considers that the 
relationship between the two is similar to that obtaining be- 
tween the typical 7e/is suzgna of Chili and the so-called & 
geofroyt of the eastern side of South America. As we have 
considered the two latter as mere local races of a single species, 
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it would perhaps have been more logical to follow the same ~ 
course in the present instance ; especially since, as noted above, 
specimens of the Pampas Cat have been described as having 
markings like the Colocolo. Nevertheless, for the present at 
least, it seems preferable to allow the latter to rank asa species. 
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