THE OCELOT 



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Tschudi informs us that the Indians of the northern provinces 

 frequently bring pumas to Lima, to show them for money. They 

 either lead them by a rope, or carry them in a sack upon their 

 back, until the sight-seers have assembled in sufficient number. 

 Besides the puma or the jaguar, tropical America pos- 

 sesses the beautifully variegated Ocelot 

 {Fells pardalis) ; the Oscollo (F, celi- 

 dogaster) ; the spotless, black-grey Ja- 

 guarundi (i^. jaguarundi), which is 

 not much larger than the European 

 wild cat ; the long-tailed, striped, and 

 spotted Margay or Tiger-cat, and several 



other felidse. All these smaller species hardly ever become 

 dangerous to man, but they cause the death of many an acouchi 

 and cavy ; and, with prodigious leaps, the affrighted monkey flies 

 from their approach into the deepest recesses of the forest. 



Ocelot. 



