THE OCELOT. 



Generic Characters. 

 Six cutting and two canine teeth in each jaw. 

 Five toes before; four behind. 



Claws marp and hooked, lodged in a meath that may be exerted or 



drawn in at pleafure. 

 Head round, vifage ftiort, tongue rough. 



Synonims. 



Felis sylvestris Americanus, Tigrinus, Seb. Muf. i. 47. tab. 



xxx. Jig. 2 and 177. tab. xlv'm. Jig. 2. 

 TlacOozelotl; Tlacocelotl. Catus pardus Mexicantjs, 



Hernandez Mexican. 512. 

 L'Ocelot, de Buff on, xiii. 23§. tab. xxxv. xxxvi. 



THE male Ocelot is a very beautiful quadruped, the elegant variety of 

 the ftripes and fpots with which it is adorned, added to the richnefs of its 

 colours, rendering it a molt charming creature. It is two feet and a half in 

 length, from the end of the nofe to the infertion of the tail (a.) The head, 

 back, upper part of the rump, and tail, are of a bright tawny colour; the 

 top of the back is adorned with a black ftripe, which extends the whole 

 length from the head to the tail; the forehead is fpotted with black, and a 

 itripe of the fame colour extends from the corners of the eyes to the noftrils; 

 the fides are whitim, beautifully marked with long llripes of black, extending 

 lengthways, which are hollow, and tawny in the middle, and fprinkled with 

 final 1 black fpots : others, of the fame thape and colour, extend from the 



(a) Mr. Buffon says it is four feet lung, but this appears to be a mistake. 



