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specific character, which differs someAvhat from that 

 proposed in the Si/nopsis : — Nose, paws, and upper por- 

 tion of the hody and limbs fulvous : temples ochrey : 

 ground colour white : shoulders and flanks with four or 

 five long fulvous spots, margined with an interrupted 

 black border : back, rump, and hams with smaller and 

 more circular spots : forehead covered with numerous 

 small, bla-ck, entire spots. 



The Greyish Ocelot. 



Fells canescens, Nobis. Felis Ocelot y, or Ocelot No. S., 



of Hamilton Smith, Griff. Cuv. ii. 47G. Felis Macrourus? 



Long-tailed Tiger-Cat, Swains. Zuol. of Mexico, p. 5. 

 {Fig. 16.) 



To this ocelot, described by major Smith, but merely 

 designated by a number^ we have given, conditionally, 

 a specific name, — a plan which is more convenient to 

 the zoologist, and preferable to the usual mode pursued on 

 these occasions ; since it will convey some idea of its pe- 

 culiarities, and may be retained either to designate it as 

 a species or as a variety. The whole of these beautiful_, 

 and to a certain degree domestic, animals are highly 

 worthy of being imported into our menageries ; and 

 considering the great number of our countrymen 

 now settled in various parts of South America, whence 

 all the ocelots yet known have been brought, we make 

 no apology for bringing them more immediately under 

 notice. There can be no doubt that several of these 

 smaller cats are fully capable of as much docility as that 

 species which has been so long domesticated ; and we 

 cannot conceive a more desirable naturalisation, than to 



