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resemble the other smaller members of the Cat tribe, being ready 
climbers and exceedingly bloodthirsty. 
LF. yagquavund’, rather larger than the Domestic Cat, with an 
elongated head and body, and of a uniform brownish-gray colour, 
ranges from Matamoras to Paraguay. . eyrw is a small Cat, very 
Musteline in form, having an elongated head, body, and tail, and 
short limbs, and is also of a uniform light reddish-brown colour. 
It is a native of South America and Mexico. F. pajeros is the 
Pampas Cat. The American Lynxes have been already noticed 
with those of the Old World. 
C. Fossil Species—It has been already incidentally mentioned 
Fic. 230.—The Ocelot (Felis pardalis). 
that several of the existing species of Felis, such as the Lion 
Leopard and Caffre Cat, are met with in a fossil condition in the 
European Pleistocene deposits, and it may be added that the Pardine 
Lynx has left its remains in the cavern-deposits of Gibraltar. The 
caves of Brazil have yielded remains of the Jaguar and Ocelot ; 
while the Puma is found in the Pleistocene of the United States, 
Existing species now inhabiting India are met with in cayern- 
deposits in Madras. In the Pliocene Siwaliks of Northern India 
the huge extinct F. cristutu shows characters connecting it both 
with the Tiger and the Jaguar ; and the same deposits also contains 
the remains of a small species of the size of F. bengalensis. In 
Europe numerous species occur in the Upper and Lower Pliocene, 
