446 FELIS. 
*onea centralis (Felis), Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiv, rgo1, 
p- 139. 
Costa Rica JaAGuAR. Tzigre in Spanish America for all Jaguars. 
Type locality. Talamanca, Costa Rica. 
Geogr. Distr. Costa Rica north to Honduras, Central America. 
Genl. Char. Smallest of the Jaguars; dentition weak; colors intense. 
Color. Clay color with a median chain of black spots, bordered 
on each side by five longitudinal rows of black rosettes; these lateral 
rosettes increase in size as they go toward the belly, and contain 
from one to five small black spots. Crown and sides of neck tawny, 
covered with black spots or rosettes; black spot on upper and lower 
lip; ears outside black with tawny spot in middle, inner side clay 
color, tawny on margin; limbs on outer side clay color blotched with 
black; under parts buffy white blotched with black, tail clay color 
above, heavily spotted and banded with black, beneath whitish 
blotched with black; muzzle clay color; claws horn color. 
Measurements. Total length, 1800; tail, 575; hind foot, 220; ear 
from crown, 60; (skin.) Skull: occipito-nasal length, 240; Hensel, 
197; zygomatic width, 153; width of antorbital processes, 75; median 
length of nasals, 64; palatal length from alveoli of incisors, 95; length 
of basi-occipital, 36; width between bulla posteriorly, 40; length of 
sectorial, 26; length of lower tooth row, 53; lower last molar, 20. 
(Type.) 
onea hernandezt (Felts), Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc.; 1857,-pe Dias 
hernandezi (Felis), Elliot, Mon. Felidae, pl. v, F. onca, rear figure. 
HERNANDEZ’S JAGUAR. 
Type locality. Mazatlan, State of Sinaloa, Mexico. 
Geogr. Distr. Apparently western Mexico, from State of Colima 
north to San Blas. 
Genl. Char. Color pale; black markings small; rosettes confined 
to upper portion of middle dorsal region. 
Color. Ochraceous buff, covered with scattered single black 
spots, except behind the shoulders, where they are gathered into 
rosettes; ears, as in other jaguars, black with buff center externally; 
under parts buffy white banded with elongate black spots; tail 
above ochraceous buff, beneath grayish white striped and banded 
with black. 
*The Jaguars, like the species of most genera, have been “‘split” into vari- 
ous races of the typical form, some of which are here given. The wisdom of 
this method, carried as it often is to great extremes, is very questionable, espe- 
cially with animals like these cats, that vary so greatly, even among individ- 
uals from the same locality, that it is practically impossible to find two alike. 
It is doubtful, as knowledge of these animals increases, if many of the races 
can maintain any kind of a distinctive rank. 
