ZOOLOGICAL POSITION H 



They are conspicuously secretive, even in 

 this wild and shy family, and in mountainous 

 regions, where their tracks may be daily seen, 

 it is an unusual event to come upon the animal 

 itself. Eight feet in length, including the tail, 

 and one hundred and fifty pounds' weight, would 

 be a large specimen of this species. The head 

 is smaller than in most cats ; the muscular sys- 

 tem is powerful, and the activity is prodigious. 



6. The JAGUAR (F. onca) much resembles the 

 leopard. The body-color is of a rather deeper 

 yellow, and sometimes has almost a rosy tinge ; 

 the rings formed by the dark spots are, as a 

 rule, larger than in that species, and frequently 

 inclose several irregular marks or spots of the 

 same color. White specimens have been known, 

 and black ones occur as in the leopard. They 

 are heavily built animals, ordinarily about the 

 size of the leopard, but with a slightly shorter 

 tail. Sometimes, however, a large size is reached, 

 Baron Humboldt having seen one as large as 

 an average tiger; and D'Azara, another well- 

 known South American traveler, states that he 

 once knew a jaguar to drag off the body of a 

 horse and swim with it across a wide and deep 



