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see one of these beautiful anirnals reposing with equal 

 serenity upon our hearth. 



The greyish ocelot is thus described by our author, 

 but the precise dimensions he does not mention. — It is 

 smaller than the F. mitis of Paraguay, and has the nose, 

 forehead, neck, back, shoulders, fore part of the fore legs, 

 and rump ashy, mixed with ochrey : the streak from the 

 inner angle of the eyes to the ears has only one row of 

 spots within it : the long open spots on the neck and back 

 are shorter, less diverging, fulvous within, but without 

 any spot on the fulvous : on the fore legs only there are 

 a few large spots ; on the hams there are some round, 

 open, and a few small, black, wavy spots : the tail is 

 altogether or nearly fulvous, ringed with black ; the tip is 

 white : the eye has a black ring ; and there are two 

 black streaks on the nose : the cheeks have a large spot ; 

 and there are two bars, with vvhite between them, run- 

 ning from the outer angle of the eye to below the ear : 

 across the throat, also, are four black bands." Of this, 

 major Smith has examined five or six specimens. 



A small tiger-cat, once in Bullock's Mexican exhi- 

 bition, is considered by our author as a young female of 

 this species. The accuracy of this opinion we are dis- 

 posed, however, to question. It was our intention to 

 have published a scientific description of the whole of 

 the zoological subjects there collected ,• but circum- 

 stances, not necessary to explain in this place, suspended 

 this design, which was only partially executed. The 

 individual alluded to by major Smith, we have, however, 

 described : it appeared to us, at the time, to agree more 

 with the account given of the long-tailed tiger-cat of 

 Brazil, than with any other, and we termed it so accord- 

 ingly. As very few copies of this incomplete work were 

 made public, we shall here repeat our former description, 

 which will be seen to differ very greatly from that given 

 by major Smith. 



The long-tailed tiger-cat of Mexico is not much 

 larger than the domesticated species, and is remarkable 

 for the length of its tail. The head is small and short. 

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