Dr. J. E. Gray on certain Species o/*Felis. 51 



The British Museum has just received from Mendoza, in 

 the Argentine Andes, a small female kitten of this species. 

 The back has very numerous small brownish spots, and the 

 belly is covered all over with many larger black spots like the 

 adult. It is very different from D'Orbigny's figure of Felis 

 Geoffroy i irom tlie Pampas and Philippi's Felis guigna, which 

 have a plain white belly. 



Pardalina ? guigna. 

 Belly white, spotless. 



Felis ipdgna, Molina, Chili; Philippi, Wiegm. Arcliiv f. Xaturg. 1873, 



t. ii. figs. 1 {animal), 2, 3 (skull). 

 Felis Geoff royi, D"Orl)iguv, Voy. Amer. Merid. p. 21, t. xiii. (auiinal), 



t. xii. f. 1 (skuU). 



Hah. Pampas, Buenos Ayres. 



Mr. Elliot, in 'Proc. Zool. Soc' 1872, states that the typical 

 specimen of Fdis pardlnoides^ Gray (P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 400, 

 & Cat. Carniv. B. M. p. 27), is a young specimen of Felis 

 Geoffroyi, which he identified with a young specimen marked 

 F. Geojf'royi in the museum at Leyden, observing that " the 

 general colour of the animal, with its lengthened annulated 

 tail, is precisely that of the typical F, Geoffroyi^'' adopting 

 Mr. Sclater's opinion that " the Pardalina Warioichii^ Gray, 

 is also F. Geoff i-oyi^'' and that " the synonymy of this species 

 will therefore be somewliat as follows," in which he makes all 

 these one species. 



The specimen of Felis pardinoides here referred to was re- 

 ceived from the Zoological Society's museum in 1855, marked 

 as having been presented to the Society by Capt. Innes and 

 as coming from India, as recorded in the 'Proc. Zool. Soc' 

 1867, p. 400, and 'Catalogue of Carnivora in the British 

 Museum,' p. 27. I have named the animal Felis pardinoides^ 

 because the form of tlie spots with a light centre has a certain 

 resemblance to those of the American ocelots. I will not 

 undertake to vouch for the accuracy of the habitats we receive 

 from the Zoological Society ; the Indian habitat has not been 

 confirmed ; and the species has a very South-American aspect. 

 The specimen has not the slightest resemblance in its general 

 coloration to the specimen of Pardalina Waricickii in the 

 Museum, or to the figure of Felis Geoffroyi of D'Orbigny's 

 'Voyage.' I think it will be an astonishment to every one 

 who has the slightest pretension to be a zoologist that 

 they should have been regarded as belonging to the same 

 species. 



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