OCELOT. 
for it approaches tliem in magnitude, and re- 
sembles them in figure and dispositions. A 
Male and Female were brought ahve to Paris 
by M, L'Escot, and we saw them at the fair 
of St. (Jvide in the month of September 116-L 
They came from the neighbourhood of Car- 
thai^ena, and had been carried off from their 
mother \vht;n very young, in tiie month of 
Oilober HQ'.}. At the age of three months, 
they liad become so strong and cruel, that they 
killed and eat a bitch which had been given to 
triem for a nurse. At the age of one year, 
vviicn we saw tliem, they were about two feet 
in length ; and it is probable that they had not 
then acquired above one half or two-thirds of 
tlieir fall growth. They were" exhibited un- 
der the name (.>f the I'iger-Cat : but we have 
rejed?i.ed this prccarioiiS and compound appel-- 
iation ; because the Jaguar, the Serval, and 
the Margay or Cayenne Cat, were transmitted 
to us under the same denomination, though 
each cf these animals differ from one another 
as w^li as from the Ocelot, 
*' Fabri is the first author who mentions 
this animal in a distinct manner. He caused 
the drawings of Recchi to be engraved ; and 
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