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170 ACCOUNT OF A NEW SPECIES OF FELIS. 



IX. — Description of a New Species of Felis from 

 Guyana. 



By Thomas Stewart Trail, M.D. F. R. S. E. M. G. S. &c. 



(Read 27th November 1819J 



Felis Unicolor. — Spotless Cat. (PL ix.) 



Char. Specif. 

 Felis cauda elongata ; totd corpore immactilato, 

 ex fusco rubescente. 



Cat with a long tail ; the whole body spotless* and 

 of a clear reddish-brown colour. 



A comparison of the character just given, and 

 that of the Puma in our best systematic authors, 

 might lead to a suspicion that there is but little dif- 

 ference between the two animals. This, however, is 

 a consequence of the imperfection of the systematic 

 character usually prefixed to descriptions of the Pu- 

 ma. In the Gmelinian Edition of Linnaeus, the lat- 

 ter is defined, " Felis cauda elongata, corpore im- 

 maculato fulvo to which Shaw has added, " subtus 

 " albido ;" and Brisson characterizes it as, " Felis 

 u esc flavo rufescens, mento et infimo ventre albi- 



