Genus Felis. Linnseus. 



Etymology — Latin, Felis, a cat. 



1735. Felis, Linnasus, Sytema Naturce, I. 



The Cats are readily known from the Lynxes by the generic marks 

 given above. They are marked externally by the long tapering (some- 

 times tufted) tail, always as long as half the body, exclusive of head and 

 neck. The fur is compact, close and glossy, often with symmetrical pat- 

 terns of coloration. The ears have no pencil of hairs at the tip. The 

 general aspect is cat-like. 



Besides F. concolor, the Panther, the type of the American species, 

 four representatives of this well known genus are found in the United 

 States: F. onca (Linnseus), the Jaguar, or American Tiger, from the Red 

 River of Louisiana south to Patagonia, the largest of the American cats; 

 F. pardalia (Linnseus), the Ocelot, or Tiger Cat, from the Red River 

 throughout the lower country of Texas ; F. eyra (Desm.) the Tiger Cat, 

 a uniform brownish-red cat of the size of the house cat, from the Rio 

 Grande of Texas through Mexico and Central America to Guiana; 

 F. yaguarundi (Desm.), a grizzled, brownish-gray cat, larger and more 

 elongate than the common cat. It ravages from the Rio Grande to Par- 

 aguay. 



Felis concoloe. (Linnaeus). 

 Pakthek ; Cougar ; Rocky Mountain Lion ; Painter ; Puma ; Black Puma. 

 1771. Felis concolor, Linn., Mantissa, 1771, 552. — Erxl., Syst. Reg. 

 Anim., 1777, 511, sp. 17.— Bodd., El. Anim., 1784, 90.— GmeL, 

 Syst. Nat., 1788, vol. i, pt. i, 79, sp. 9.— Schreb , Saugth., 1778, 

 th. iii, 394, tab. civ.— F. Cuv., Hist. Nat. Mamm., 1829, vol. ii, 

 pi. 143.— Cuv., Ossem. Poss., 1825, vol. iv., 40.— Temm., Mon. 

 Mammif., 1827, 134.— Wils., Illust. Zool., 1831, pi. i.— Maxilian, 

 Beitr Naturg. Brasil., 1826, band ii, 358. Reug., Zool. Journ., 

 1835, vol. v., 476.— Fuller, P. Z. S., 1836, 62.— Azara, Nat. Hist. 

 Quad. Parag., 1838, 207.— Swains., Anim. Menag., 106.— Rich., 

 Zool. Beechey's Voy., Mam., 1839, 6.— Griflf., Anim. King. 1827, 

 436.— Burm., Weber. Thier. Bras., 1854, 88.— Murr., Geog. Distr. 

 Anim., 1866, 100.— Gerv., Nat. Hist. Mam., 1865, 89.— Blainv., 

 Osteog., 1839-64, vol. ii., atl. vi., pis. xi, xiv.— Pisch., Zoogu., 

 1814, 223, sp. 5.— Id., Syn., 1829, 197.— Jard., Nat. Libr., vol. 

 xvi, 124, pis. iv, v.— Desm., Mammal., 1820, 218, No. 336, pi. 94, 

 fig. 102.— D'Orbig., Voy. Amer. Merid., 1847, 21, Mamm.— Barth., 

 P. Z. S., 1861, 141.— Cunningh., P. Z. S. 1868, 185.— Sclat., P. Z. 

 S., 1868, 62 .—Temm., Mon. Mamm., 1827, voL i, 134, et App 



