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became certain they ran down the trunks of the trees to the ground 

 and, unless killed by a quick shot, promptly disappeared in the 

 forest. On several occasions while hunting in the forest I had 

 glimpses of ocelots crossing small openings among the trees, but none 

 were encountered while using a hunting lamp at night. 



Bangs (1902, p. 48) records the collection of a fine adult male at 

 4,000 feet altitude near Boquete by W. W. Brown, Jr. Under the 

 name Felis mearnsi, proposed as a substitute for Felis costaricensis 

 Mearns (which proved to be preoccupied by F. bangsi costaricensis 

 Merriam for the puma), Allen (1904, p. 71) notes a specimen 

 obtained by J. H. Batty at Boqueron. Anthony (1916, p. 371) Hsts 

 a specimen from Real de Santa Maria. 



Native names for the ocelot in the Canal Zone are " manigordo " 

 and ** tigre chico," the former also used in Costa Rica for the same 

 animal and meaning literally thick paws, in allusion to its large feet. 



Specimens examined : Boqueron, i * ; Boquete, i ' ; Gatun, 3 ; 

 Mount Pirre, i ; Punta de Pena (near Bocas del Toro), i ; Real de 

 Santa Maria, i.* 



FELIS PIRRENSIS Goldman 



Panama Long-tailed Spotted Cat 



[Plate 36, figs. I, la] 



Felis pirrensis Goldman, Smiths. Misc. Coll., Vol. 63, No. 5, p. 4, March 14, 

 1914. Type from Cana, eastern Panama (altitude 2,000 feet). 



This species closely resembles the ocelot in heavily spotted and 

 striped coloration, but differs in more slender form and longer tail ; 

 the tail of the type measures 440 millimeters in length (nearly 100 

 millimeters more than is usual in the ocelot). 



In the original description I provisionally referred this animal 

 to the little-known F. pardinoides group, with the remark that " in 

 size it seems nearer to the F. zmedii group, but it lacks the reversed 

 pelage of nape commonly ascribed to that group." I have since 

 become convinced that the direction taken by the pelage of the nape 

 is apt to be untrustworthy as a distinctive character; the animal is 

 more probably a large member of the F. zmedii group which is rep- 

 resented farther north in Middle America by F. glaucula, a smaller, 

 grayer colored animal. It is to this group of spotted cats that the 

 name Felis tigrina seems to have been applied by writers on the cats 

 of Middle America, a name which in the light of present knowledge 



^ Collection Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 

 ' Collection Mus. Comp. Zool. 



