12 FELIDJS. 



Var. 1. 



Leopardus Hernandesii, Ch-ay, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 278, t. 18; 1867, 

 p. 402; Slainv. OsUogr. Felis, t.^. 



Hah. South America. 



Pupil round. — Bartlett. 



Skull— nasals broad, their hinder end and the back edge of maxillae 

 nearly in a line ; forehead convex ; nose broad, flat above ; orbit 

 with a prominence in the middle of the front or nasal edge. Length 

 9 inches, width 6 inches. 



Var. 2. Black. SkuU, length 9| inches, width 63 inches. 

 Felis nigra, &xl. 



Hah. Brazil. 



The skull of the Jaguar {Felis onea, Linn.) is known from the 

 skulls of all the other species of the genus Leopardus, and from the 

 Lion and the Tiger, by having a distinct, but more or less developed, 

 tubercle (probably for the attachment of one of the muscles of the 

 eyeball) on the middle of the inner or nasal edge of the orbit ; and 

 there is also a well-marked half-ovate notch in the middle of the 

 truncated front edge of the internal nostril, which is not so distinctly 

 developed in other large feline animals. 



The specimen which I described under the name of Leopardus 

 Hernandesii in the Proc. Zool. Soc. (1857, p. 278, Mamm. t. 58), 

 from Mexico, has come into the British Museum collection; and I 

 cannot find any difference in the skull to distinguish it from the 

 other specimens of the Jaguar ; so I suppose it must be considered 

 one of the varieties of that species, marked by the distance at 

 which the small spots are placed from each other, only now and 

 then forming anything hke a distinct ring or row of spots. 



tt Large one-coloured Cats. 



5. Leopardus auratus. B.M. 



Felis aurata, Temm. 



Felis chrysothrix, Temm. 



Felis moormensis et F. murmensis, Hodgson. 



Jimior. Felis Temminckii, Vigors. 



Leopardus auratus, Oray, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 265. 



Hah. Himalaya, Sumatra ; Borneo. 

 Pupil round. — Hodgson. 



6. Leopardus concolor. B.M. 



Felis concolor, Idnn. 



Felis discolor, Schreb. 



Felis puma, Shaw. 



Felis fulva, Brisson, 



Puma, Penn. 



Leopardus concolor, Ch-ay, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 265. 



Blamv. OsUogr. Felis, t, 6; Baird, Mam. N, A. t. 71 (skull). 



