POPDLAK OFFICIAL GUIDE. 



OCELOT. 



Of such an odd mixture of animals as we are now lo con- 

 sider, anything like a perfect systematic zoological arrange- 

 ment is a practical impossibility; but as far as it is possible, 

 we will take up the animals by groups. 



On the whole, the most striking animals in the Small- 

 Mammal House are the small cats and lynxes. Of the 

 spotted cats, the Serval, {Felis serval), of Africa, is one of 

 the rarest. Its long, slender legs, small head, slender body 

 and round spots proclaim it a near relative to the cheetah. 

 The Clouded Leopards, (F. nebulosa), are now dead, but in- 

 asmuch as they will be replaced, it is well to point out that 

 the species referred to is one of the most beautifully marked 

 of all parti-colored cats. It is a native of Burma and 

 Malayana as far south as Borneo and Java. In total length 

 this interesting and very rare species is from 66 to 70 inches, 

 and its enormously long and curved canines are suggestive 

 of the canines of the sabre-toothed tiger. 



The Jungle Cat, (F. bengalensis), is a small and incon- 

 spicuous type, as befits an animal which lives by stealth in 

 densely populated regions. The Ocelot, {Felis pardalis), of 

 South and Central America, is a small spotted cat which 

 very often is called a "young jaguar." In size it is the 

 third largest Felis of the American continent; but for all 

 that, it is so small that an adult specimen would not make 



