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minated PUMA, the Couguar of South and North 

 America, distinguished from the rest, hecause the 

 species are without clear spots, excepting the last, 

 which we formerly discovered in Bullock's Museum. 

 The species of the group are not well defined ; in 

 Puma concolar, the South American is distinctly 

 marked with a black streak behind the vibrissas, a 

 white spot on the back of the ear, and is larger 

 than the North American, where all these marks 

 are often missing. But there are, in the South, two 

 others ; one, which we measured, was from nose to 

 tail 4' 2", and the tail 2' 6", making a total of 6 feet 

 8 inches : deep blackish-red, with a few darker 

 specks on the forehead and on the sides; tip of the 

 tail not black, nor any white on the back of the ear. 

 This is our Puma discolor ; from the spots it must 

 be distinct, for in the young Puma the marks are 

 ringed. The second was 2' 9" from nose to tail, 1' 

 3" the tail, total 4 feet ; liver colour, paler beneath, 

 white spot on back of ear ; fourteen brown rings, 

 and tip of tail black ; numerous dark brown round 

 spots on the body, largest on the rump, inner arm, 

 and abdomen. This we take to be the Jaguar ondL 

 Both were in Bullock's Museum. There remains 

 still the true Black Couguar, Puma atratus, Nobis, 

 (perhaps Jaguar-ete-pope), already figured by Pen- 

 nant, and of which we drew a specimen from a 

 living adult. The animal appears larger than the 

 South American Couguar, is of a glossy jet black, 

 excepting the lips, chin, cheek, temple, jowl, throat 

 breast, belly, and knee joint of the hind leg ; the 



