*1E LONG-TAILED OCELOT. 213 



has long been known to naturalists as a variety of 

 the common ocelot, and thinks that even the cha- 

 racters which Linnaeus drew up for his F. pardalis 

 were partly taken fi-otw this animal. 



Temminck gives the total length 4>f an adult male 

 as 3 feet 8 inches, of which the tail made 1 foot 7 

 inches ; that of a young male was only 2 feet 4 

 inches. The ground-colour of the skin is of a 

 clear ochraceous-yellow, and brighter upon the sides. 

 The lower parts are white. The forehead is marked 

 with five bands, more or less distinct, and upon 

 the cheeks there are two which run transverse- 

 ly, the upper one from the corner of the eye, the 

 lower from the whiskers. On the throat and fore 

 part of the neck, there are four crescent-shaped bands, 

 and upon the upper part of the back there are six 

 longitudinal streaks, four of which run upon the 

 back, and the two lateral ones bend down upon the 

 fore-limbs. The rest of the body is covered with 

 irregular lengthened blotches, which form an inter- 

 rupted line upon the back, and which, on the limbs, 

 assume the form of small round spots. There are 

 none of the beautifully surrounded spots, with a pale 

 centre, which so strikingly characterise the ocelot. 

 The tail is serni-annuiated, ana black at the tip. In 

 habit it resemoies the shape or tne ocelot. 



