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became certain they ran down the trunks of the trees to the ground 

 and, unless killed by a quick shot, promptly disappeared in the 

 forest. On several occasions while hunting in the forest I had 

 glimpses of ocelots crossing small openings among the trees, but none 

 were encountered while using a hunting lamp at night. 



Bangs (1902, p. 48) records the collection of a fine adult male at 

 4,000 feet altitude near Boquete by W. W. Brown, Jr. Under the 

 name Felis mearnsi, proposed as a substitute for Felis costaricensis 

 Mearns (which proved to be preoccupied by F. bangsi costaricensis 

 Merriam for the puma), Allen (1904, p. 71) notes a specimen 

 obtained by J. H. Batty at Boqueron. Anthony (1916, p. 371) lists 

 a specimen from Real de Santa Maria. 



Native names for the ocelot in the Canal Zone are " manigordo " 

 and " tigre chico," the former also used in Costa Rica for the same 

 animal and meaning literally thick paws, in allusion to its large feet. 



Specimens examined : Boqueron, 1 1 ; Boquete* 1 J ; Gatun, 3 ; 

 Mount Pirre, 1 ; Punta de Pena (near Bocas del Toro), 1 ; Real de 

 Santa Maria, I. 1 



FELIS PIRRENSIS Goldman 



Panama Long-tailed Spotted Cat 



[Plate 36, figs. I, ia] 



Felis pirrensis Goldman, Smiths. Misc. Coll., Vol. 63, No. 5, p. 4, March 14, 

 1 914. Type from Cana, eastern Panama (altitude 2,000 feet). 



This species closely resembles the ocelot in heavily spotted and 

 striped coloration, but differs in more slender form and longer tail ; 

 the tail of the type measures 440 millimeters in length (nearly 100 

 millimeters more than is usual in the ocelot). 



In the original description I provisionally referred this animal 

 to the little-known F. pardinoides group, with the remark that " in 

 size it seems nearer to the F. zviedii group, but it lacks the reversed 

 pelage of nape commonly ascribed to that group." I have since 

 become convinced that the direction taken by the pelage of the nape 

 is apt to be untrustworthy as a distinctive character; the animal is 

 more probably a large member of the F. zviedii group which is rep- 

 resented farther north in Middle America by F. glaucula, a smaller, 

 grayer colored animal. It is to this group of spotted cats that the 

 name Felis tigrina seems to have been applied by writers on the cats 

 of Middle America, a name which in the light of present knowledge 



1 Collection Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



2 Collection Mus. Comp. Zool. 



