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from the outer angle of the eye to below the ear. Four 

 black broad bars cross the throat. 



" A young female of this is now in Mr. Bullock's Mexi- 

 can collection. It came from Mexico. 



" I have examined five or six specimens, and believe I 

 have sufficient grounds for considering the differences be- 

 tween this and the preceding not to arise from nonage. 



tl I believe that at Paris there are stuffed specimens of 

 male and female Ocelots, with specks in the centre of the 

 open rings or spots, but am not certain of this, or whether 

 this character be any indication of sexual difference. 



" No. 4 I have seen but twice. It is fulvous on the nose, 

 forehead, shoulders, fore-arm, back, rump, and paws. The 

 temples are ochery ; the rest of the animal white. There 

 are no black streaks on the forehead, but instead of them a 

 number of small round spots covering the whole surface. 

 Two broken streaks run from the outer angle of the eye to 

 below the ear. On the shoulders and flanks there are four 

 or five long open fulvous spots, bordered with a chain of 

 black. On the rest of the back, rump, and hams, there are 

 small open spots. The tail is annulated, the tip black. 

 On the fore legs and the lower part of the hind legs are 

 small black spots. The specimen figured was formerly in 

 Bullock's collection, supposed to belong to southern Mexico, 

 Honduras, fyc. 



" This appears to me to be the animal from which the 

 figure in Buffon and Shaw was taken, under the name of 

 the Jaguar*. 



" Whether these few are specifically different or heredi- 

 tary varieties, I do not mean to determine ; but from the 

 number of specimens of each that have fallen under my 

 observation, there seems little doubt that one of these alter- 



* Buffon gave two figures for his Jaguar : the one is the Chati of 

 F. Cuvier, the other the species here alluded to. 



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