CARNIVORA. 
79 
Molina’s description of the manners of the puma is 
properly referrible to the jaguar. It may be observed, 
generally, that the puma is of the most cruel and 
sanguinary disposition in a state of nature, though 
it is easy to be tamed, and is inferior to the jaguar in 
bodily powers, and still more in personal courage. 
It seems probable, that there are two varieties of 
the puma, one of Carolina, and another of South 
America, as has been conjectured ; but we have no 
data to strengthen the supposition, beyond what has 
been already said upon the subject. 
There are several species of this genus found in 
America, which have coloured oval circles as well as 
full spots, all of which may be called ocelots ; notices 
of some of them are to be luet with in different 
authors, but they have not, hitherto, been defined 
collectively. The first of these we shall mention is, 
in all probability. 
THE TLATCOCELOTL OF HERNANDEZ. 
The opposite figure of this is from a female speci- 
men in Mr. Bullock’s museum. The skin was three 
feet six inches, and the tail fifteen inches long. The 
jaguar of Buffon seems likely to be the male of this 
species. 
