474 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



was in Mr. Bullock's late Museum, and we believe is now 

 in Germany. It was wholly of a grayish, liver-colour, or 

 chocolate and white mixed upon each hair, marked with 

 more opaque round full dark brown spots and blotches. 

 The tail was darker than the body, and annulated with about 

 twelve darker rings, the tip being black. The back of the 

 ears was black, with a white spot in the middle ; the insides 

 whitish. Three rows of barbs formed the whiskers. It 

 measured two feet nine inches in length, the tail one foot 

 three inches, and was a male. This may be the Jaguaroundi 

 of the Brasilians, but the peculiarity of its colour seems to 

 bespeak it distinct. The drawing is by Major Smith, who, 

 without insisting on it as an undescribed . species, names 

 the animal conditionally Felts Chalybeata ? 



Of the Ocelots, a group in the Feline family of middling- 

 sized Cats, distinguished by yellow spots more or less oval, 

 bordered with black, several individuals have been described, 

 but whether any or all of these were varieties or distinct 

 species, may be doubted. D'Azara considers them all as 

 a single species. Our author makes three specifically dif- 

 ferent ; and we shall have occasion to submit the figures of 

 some others which appear to us to be distinct. 



The Jaguar of Buffon is evidently and very erroneously 

 one of these. It will be seen by the table that this species 

 is identified by modern zoologists with the Tlatco-Ocelots of 

 Hermandez and the Chibigouazou of Azara, and is figured 

 byF. Cuvier under the name of Chati. His figure is copied 

 here, in order that it may be compared with the others from 

 drawings by Major Smith, one of which that gentleman 

 refers, though not without hesitation, to the Tlatco-Ocelots 

 of Hermandez, and the Jaguar of Buffon, and the other 

 to the Chibigouazou. 



We had written some observations on this group of the 

 Felinse, when Major Smith favoured us with his sentiments 



