Carnivora. — —MAMMALIA. Carnivora. 
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tropical America. It is beautifully marked, and is said 
to become a pleasant pet when tamed. Mr.AVaterton 
speaks of taming one so that he was as docile and 
as safe a pet as the domestic Cat. The ground color 
of this species is a bright tawney ; the face is striped 
downwards with black ; the shoulders and body 
marked both with stripes and large, oblong black 
spots, and small spots on the legs. The breast, belly 
and insides of the limbs are whitish. The tail is 
long, marked with black and gray. Its habit is 
arboreal, mostly watching its prey from the branches 
of trees in the deep forests. Its young are two in 
number. It breeds once a year. 
THE PAMPAS CAT [Felu ^xtjeros ). — This is about 
the size of a large house Cat, measuring about twenty- 
six inches in length. It is strictly a South Ameri- 
can species, though it ranges the entire Southern 
continent. 'I'he fur is long, of a pale yellowish-gray 
color generally, with the sides of the body banded 
with brownish tinge. The tail is peculiar, being 
short and bush-like at the extremity. 
THE CHATI (Felis mitit ). — This is little larger 
than the preceding, measuring about three feet, the 
tail included. Above, the fur is pale yellow, with 
dark brown irregular patches; beneath, it is white. 
Beneath the throat there are two bands, crescent- 
shaped, having the aspect of collars. The tail, to- 
ward the tip, has a series of faint rings. The Chati 
is found in South America exclusively, and is said to 
be gentle and tameable. 
THE CHIBIGHAZU (Felis chibiguazu ). — This Cat 
is larger than the preceding, measuring four feet, 
including the tail, which is about thirteen inches 
long. It is said to be unusually cunning and de- 
structive, yet, when kept in confinement, becomes 
tractable and docile. Other species are known to 
inhabit the tropical regions of South America, but 
little is known of them. Felis hernandezii is found 
in Mexico; Felis colcola, Guiana and Surinam; F. 
geoffroyii, the Pampas and Patagonia ; F. grisca 
(Gray ocelot). Central America; F.jacobita, Bolivia ; 
F. pictus of Gray and F. pseudopardalis are from 
the Bay of Campeche. 
Lynx. — Fa/. 
Dr. Gray and De Kay, in the Few Yorlc Zoology, 
use the term Lyncus for this genus. Its characters 
are seen in the absence of the small anterior pre- 
molar and the brief and abruptly truncate tail. There 
are, besides, certain differences of structure in the 
cranium. There are four forms of this genus in the 
United States. 
AMERICAN WILD CAT (Lynx rufus, Ra/.)—\'\\& 
specific characters of this form are given as follows : 
“The fur moderately full and soft; above and on the 
sides, pale rufous, overlaid with grayish — the latter 
color most prevalent in winter ; a few obsolete dark 
spots on the sides, and indistinct longitudinal lines 
along the middle of the back ; color on the throat 
like the sides, but much paler ; beneath, white spot- 
ted ; inside of the fore and hind-legs, banded ; tail 
with a small black patch above at the end, with in- 
distinct subterminal half rings; inner surface of ear 
with a white patch.”— .FafriZ. The same authority 
remarks, concerning the difficulty of determining the 
subject of species in this genus : “ In the study of 
the North American Lynxes, although a consider- 
able number of specimens have been before me, I 
have found it difficult to come To satisfactory con- 
clusions, owing to the imperfect condition of some 
and the uncertainty as to date of collecting others. 
It is well known that this species, having a very wide 
range, varies much, not only with locality and season, 
but those from different localities will vary much at 
the same time. Northern skins of Wild Cats have 
generally longer and softer hair the year through 
than the southern, while, as in the Deer, the hair will 
have a reddish or bay tinge, which is replaced by a 
grayish in winter. In many of our animals of wide 
distribution, there appear to be several races, as far 
as dimensions are concerned, in particular species; 
skulls of the same relative age being different in size. 
This is particularly the case in the Gats, Raccoons, 
Bears and Deer ; and, as a general rule, the farther 
south we go, the smaller the species. This condition 
of things adds not a little to the confusion which 
prevails. The skulls vary much, too, with age, and 
probably also with sex, although the specimens be- 
fore me, not having the sex indicated, do not afford 
the clue to the peculiarities of male or female. There 
appear to be at least three species of smaller Ameri- 
can Lynxes in North America — the common Bay 
Lynx, which reaches from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 
throughout nearly the whole latitude of the United 
States, but is replaced in Texas and Southern Cali- 
fornia by the Lynx maculatus, and in Northern Oregon 
and Washington Territories by the L. fasciatus. The 
precise limit of the last-mentioned species, other than 
as indicated, has not been ascertained. The examin- 
ation of a large number of well-prepared specimens 
of different ages, sexes, seasons and localities will, 
however, be necessary fully to unravel the perplexities 
which now encompass the whole subject.” 
Specimens of this form are in the Smithsonian In- 
stitute, from Carlisle, Pa. ; St. Johns, Florida ; from 
Nebraska, California, Oregon, Missouri and Alabama. 
This Cat is frequently captured ; several fine speci- 
mens are kept at Central Park, N. Y. They are not 
sociably inclined, seeming better pleased to retire 
from sight ; spitting and snarling when approached, 
and constantly wearing a thoroughly forbidding and 
sinister countenance. Measurements are given as 
follows: Length of head and body, twenty-eight and 
three-quarter inches. One was twenty -seven inches. 
The tail of former is seven inches. Height of latter 
at shoulder, fifteen and a half inches. Authors have 
given it various names : F. ruffa by Guilderstaedt ; 
F. rufa, Schreber and others ; Lynx montanus by 
Raff, and Harlan ; L. floridianus by Raff. ; Bay Cat 
and Mountain Cat by Pennant. 
TEXAS WILD CAT {Lynx rufus, var. maculatus ). — 
Baird gives the specific characters of this Cat as : 
“Fur short and rather coarse; color above and on 
sides, light reddish-brown, overlaid with grayish in 
the winter ; quite distinct spots of darker on the 
