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ment of dung was observed during our four weeks on the paramo. The 
dried foot and claws of a bear killed several years previously was exhibit- 
ed to us at the hacienda “El Severia”’ just below our camps. Natives 
say the bears live almost exclusively in the forest and it is only on the 
very rare occasions when they wander out into the cultivated clearings 
that they have been killed. One of their favorite foods is said to be 
obtained from some part of a small hardy palm which grows sparingly 
at considerable altitudes. 
Potos flavus meridensis Thomas. Merida Kinkajou. 
A captive kinkajou was seen in Cucuta, and although the species 
was not noted elsewhere, it is probably generally distributed. 
Local name Cuchi-cuchi. 
Canis thous savannarum Thomas. Savanna Fox. 
Two specimens, Empalado Savannas, 30 miles east of Maracaibo, 
Venezuela, April 8, 1911. 
Foxes or “‘zorros”” are common from the shore of Lake Maracaibo 
eastward. Our specimens agree very closely with the description of 
the subspecies savannarum from the savannas of Guiana. They were 
killed with small shot from a lookout in a tree at about nine o’clock in 
. the evening. As seen from above in rather dim moonlight against a 
background of sandy soil and tufts of dry grass, only their black dorsal 
streaks were visible. These appeared to glide sinuously over the ground 
in a most uncanny manner and as I fired I could not imagine what they 
would prove to be. 
Field measurements are, for male and female respectively: Total 
length 870, 890; head and body 616, 597; tail vertebre 254, 293; hind 
foot 125, 130. 
Felis onca Linnzus. Jaguar. 
One specimen, Maracaibo (purchased). 
Jaguars are quite common throughout the region surrounding Lake 
Maracaibo. They are held in considerable fear by most of the native 
hunters and though frequently killed by them it generally occurs when 
all the circumstances favor the hunter. This is most often when e/ 
tigre unexpectedly appears while the hunter is perched in a tree watching 
for deer and a heavy charge of buckshot at short range is generally 
effective. We noted considerable evidence of the destruction of cattle 
by jaguars, especially in the region between Lake Maracaibo and the 
