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JAGUAR. 
Tlatlauiiqui Ocelotl. Tigris Mexicana. Hernandez, Mex., p. 498, fig. c. 
Jaguara. Marcgr. Brazil, p. 235, fig. c. 
Jaguar. Buff. Nat. Hist., tom. ix. p. 201. 
Yagouarete. D’Azara, vol. i. p. 114. 
Brazilian Panther. Pennant’s Synopsis, pp. 127, 176. 
“ Tiger. Pennant’s Quadrupeds, p. 286. 
Onza Pintado. Lusitanis, in Bresil. Cumang Maconis. 
Felis Jaguar. Hamilton Smith. Griffith’s An. Kingdom, vol. v. p. 164. 
“ Onca. Harlan, Fauna, p. 95. 
DESCRIPTION. 
The Jaguar compares with the Asiatic tiger in size and in shape ; its 
legs, however, are shorter than those of the royal tiger, although its 
body is perhaps as heavy. 
Head, large ; jaws, capable of great expansion ; incisors, large, and 
slightly curved inwards ; ears, rather small, rounded, clothed with short 
hairs on the inside. Body, rather inclining to be stout, and shorter and 
less elegant than the cougar : at the shoulders the Jaguar is not much 
more raised from the earth, but it stands higher from the ground near the 
rump. 
Feet, clothed with hair covering the retractile nails ; the pads of the 
feet, naked ; a few hairs between the toes ; tail, long, and generally half 
elevated when walking ; whiskers, few, strong, and bristly. 
Hair of two kinds ; the longest (which is only from four to five eighths 
of an inch in length) is the coarser ; the shortest is a softer and finer fur, 
and is not very thickly distributed. 
COLOUR. 
Where the black markings do not prevail, the hairs are light greyish- 
brown at the roots and on the surface rich straw-yellow, deepest near the 
shoulders and back, and paler on the sides and legs ; nose to near the eye 
nearly a uniform lightish-brown ; forehead spotted with black in some- 
what curved lines, the spots becoming larger towards the back of the 
head ; whiskers black at the roots, then white for two thirds of their 
length to the points ; lips and chin, white ; a black line on the sides of 
the mouth ; around the eye, whitish-yellow ; iris, light-yellow ; a black 
stripe between the ears on the back part of the head. There is no white 
patch behind the ear, as in the cougar and the wild cat. 
All the black spots on the body are composed of hairs which are black 
from their roots ; outer edge of the ear, black for half an inch in width ; 
