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Felis pajero Berg, Com. Mus. nac. de Buenos Aires, I, 1900, 219 



(emendation of F. pajeros Desm.). 

 Felis pajeros criiciua Thomas, Ann. & Mag., Nat. Hist. (7), VIII, Sept., 

 1 90 1, 247. Based on the Santa Cruz specimen collected by Darwin 

 and described and figured by Waterhouse, as above cited. 



External Characters. — No. 16695, male adult, Rio Gallagos, 20 

 miles from coast, August 12, 1899, collected and presented to the American 

 Museum of Natural History by Mr. Barnum Brown. In winter pelage. 



Pelage long and full. Especially characterized by a crest of elongated 

 hairs along the middle of the dorsal area. General color above pale gray 

 with a suffusion of fulvous beneath the surface and varied with black- 

 tipped hairs ; a distinct median stripe of elongated hairs extends from a 

 little behind the shoulders to the base of the tail, the longest hairs forming a 

 prominent crest along the middle dorsal region. These hairs are brown- 

 ish fulvous at the base for three fourths of their length, then ringed with 

 black, the band being well outlined as a pale fulvous median stripe varied 

 with black. Sides of the nose whitish and a white ring encloses the eye 

 except posteriorly ; edge of the upper lip, chin and throat white, the lower 

 throat marbled with irregular bands of dull fulvous, mostly concealed 

 beneath the surface, but forming distinct crossbars on the extreme upper 

 chest where they become darker and are succeeded by irregular narrow 

 crossbars of black. Sides of the body with indistinct black fulvous stripes 

 nearly concealed by the tips of the hairs, only the under-fur being fulvous. 

 These stripes extend forward indistinctly to the cheeks, there being one 

 just below the eye and another near the lower part of the cheek. Abdomen 

 white, with large blackish spots more or less suffused with fulvous. Fore 

 leg whitish with two broad rings of black and a third imperfect ring below 

 strongly suffused with fulvous. Forefoot below fulvous, irregularly 

 blotched with deeper fulvous. Hindfoot below fulvous, the soles deep 

 fulvous, the lower part of the hind leg imperfectly ringed with blackish, 

 suffused with fulvous. Ears gray posteriorly darkening to form a promi- 

 inent black spot at the tip ; along the edge of the ear fulvous white, the 

 hairs of the front margin elongated. Tail grayish fulvous, the hairs brown- 

 ish plumbeous basally, ringed near the tip with black and below fulvous 

 with many black-tipped hairs ; base of the tail below fulvous white. 



Measurements from flat skin, tail slightly imperfect. Head and body, 

 790 mm.; tail, 270?; ear from crown, 45. Mr. Waterhouse gives the 



