The Cat Family. 



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Geoffrey's Cat (Felis-geoffro}-). found -in Paraguay 

 and Chili, and the Ocelot-like cat (Felis-pardinoides) of 

 the United States of Columbia, are species nearly related 

 to the Margay cat. The former has a short whitish 

 brown fur, with a white throat and a white streak on 

 the cheeks, and numerous evenly distributed small black 

 spots on the body. It also has four black streaks on the 

 crown, two on the cheeks and one on the chest. The 

 skull is short and broad. The Ocelot-like Cat measures 

 eighteen inches without the ten inch tail, and has dark 

 blotches with a black border, instead of the spots that 

 distinguish the Geoffroy's Cat which it otherwise greatly 

 resembles. 



The Ocelot. 



The Ocelot (Felis-pardalis), the largest Leopard Cat of 

 America, is from two to three feet long, and has a twelve- 

 inch tail which is partly ringed. It is a lively and graceful 

 animal, marked more or less with black on the face and 

 light under parts; and showing a great variety of mark- 

 ings on the back and sides. Some specimens are beauti- 

 fully striped, while others are blotched like a dark tabby 

 cat, but the}^ are all characterized by the oblong shape of 

 the dark spots with drab centers which appear on the 

 sides; on the back the spots are always solid black. The 

 Ocelot is the third largest of the American Felidae, and is 

 sometimes called the Jungle Cat and the Young Jaguar. 

 Its range is from Texas south through Mexico, Central 

 America and South America, down to Southern Brazil. 



