FELIS. 451 
Color. Ground color dark clay color; usual black lines on head 
and nape, but median nectral line not present; black line on lower 
back flanked by rosettes; chin dull whitish; under surface brownish 
clay color, as are also the feet; tail with broad black rings above, 
clay color beneath, with indistinct black rings; tip black. 
Measurements. Total length, 795; tail, 290; hind foot, 105; ear, 
39. No skull preserved. 
459. jaguarondi (Felis), Fisch., Zoogn., 1814, p. 228. Elliot, Mon. 
Felide, pl. x11. Jd. Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 295. 
Jacuaronp1. Leon monero, Leon miquero, in Costa Rica. 
Type locality. Paraguay. 
Geogr. Distr. Rio Grande, Texas, southward to Paraguay, east 
of Andes. 
Genl. Char. Body elongate; legs short; tail as long as body 
without head. 
Color. General color grizzled brownish gray; hairs annulated 
and black-tipped; tail like body; some specimens black with rufous 
tinge, tips of hairs white. 
Measurements. Total length, 678; tail vertebre, 365. Skull: 
occipito-nasal length, 96.5; Hensel, 86; zygomatic width, 64; inter- 
orbital constriction, 29; at posterior processes, 44; mastoid width, 39; 
median length of nasals, 19; length of upper tooth row, 20; length 
of mandible, 55; height at coronoid process, 28; length of lower tooth 
TOW, 22. 
a.—*eacomitli Berlandier in Baird, Rep. U. 5S. & Mex. Bound. 
Surv., 1857, 11, Mamm., p. 12. 
Gray JAGUARONDI. 
Type locality. Matamoros, State of Tamaulipas, Mexico. 
Genl. Char. Color gray. 
Color. Summer Pelage. Nearly uniform smoky gray, or pepper- 
and-salt gray with under fur whitish gray, the over hairs ringed with 
white, buff, and black, and tipped with black; under parts paler; 
light buffy gray bordering the blackish orbital ring, and on chin and 
throat; a narrow blackish line between eyes, and another between 
ears; tail beneath whitish smoke gray. 
Winter Pelage. Darker, with more black on back; otherwise 
similar to the summer coat. 
Measurements. Total length, 1060; tail vertebra, 480; hind foot, 
140; ear above crown, 4o. Skull: Hensel, 95; zygomatic breadth, 70; 
*A gray phase of F. jaguarondi, probably an individual peculiarity, and 
no doubt found among members of the same litter, as is witnessed among the 
young of screech owls, Otus asio,in the same nest. (See the Auk, 1903, pp. 272-76 
for use of genus Olus.) 
