FELIS. 449 
CARRIKER’S OCELOT. 
Type locality. Pozo Azul, Pirris Province, Costa Rica. 
Genl. Char. Size small: tail short. 
Color. Nose to end of tail brownish black; sides lighter and more 
brownish; ventral surface chocolate brown; outer side of limbs dark 
chocolate brown indistinctly clouded with blackish brown; inner side 
of limbs like ventral surface indistinctly blotched with darker spots; 
ears blackish brown; lips and cheeks blackish; tail above uniform 
brownish black, sides and beneath lighter, slightly clouded with a 
darker color. 
Measurements. Total length, 970; tail vertebre, 276; hind foot, 
tor. Skull: total length, 86; Hensel, 73; zygomatic breadth, 55; 
interorbital constriction, 16; intertemporal width, 28; middle of brain- 
case above meatus, 38; length of nasals, 18; anterior width of nasals, 
t1; bulla, 18X10; front of canine to posterior border of carnassial, 
30.5; length of upper carnassial, 19; length of lower carnassial, 7.5; 
length of mandible, 55; height at condyle, 11.5; at coronoid, 21.5. 
457. tigrina Erxl., Syst. Regn. Anim., 1, 1777, p. 517. Elliot, Mon. 
Felide, pl. xx. 
mitis F. Cuv., Hist. Nat. Mamm., 11, 1820, pl. 137. 
macroura Max., Beitr. Naturg. Bras., 11, 1826, p. 371. 
chait Griff., Anim. King., 11, 1827, p. 479. 
brasiliensis F. Cuv., Hist. Nat. Mamm., 11, 1820, pl. 139. 
elegans Less., Cent. Zo6dl., 1830, p. 60, pl. 21. 
THE Marcay. Cauzel in Costa Rica. 
Type locality. Unknown. ‘South America.”’ 
Geogr. Distr. Honduras to Paraguay. 
Genl. Char. Nasals broad, narrowing rapidly posteriorly; audital 
bulla large, swollen; infraorbital foramen oblong; canines moderate. 
Color. Very variable. General color light rufous brown; four 
narrow brownish black lines, two from between, and two from the 
corner of the eyes, pass over the top of the head to the base of the 
neck, where they become broader and black; a line of white between 
the nose and eyes; two narrow brown lines cross the cheek from the 
eye and meet another irregular dark brown line passing across the 
side of the throat under the jaw. Cheek, throat, breast, and belly 
have the ground color white; the entire body, back, sides, and belly 
thickly covered with round brownish black spots, forming lines on 
the back; the breast is crossed by four or five irregular brownish 
black lines; legs spotted like the back, the spots reaching nearly to 
the feet on the fore legs, but only to the heels on the hind ones; tail 
long, covered with black spots like those of the body, and inclining 
