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primarily on the Cato-parUm mexicanus of Hernandez!. 
This, the earliest available name for an Ocelot, pertains to the species 
of east-central Mexico. 
Mexhmui (PNtnthera]) . Ok ex/ 1816.rlehrbuch der Naturgeschichte, p. 1054. 
L inter the genus Fdis, an Ocelot from Mexico is described which is 
probably a synonym of Felis purdah* Linmeus. The name is pre¬ 
occupied by Fdis me,dean a Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. d'liist. Nat., VI. 
Idlb, p. 112, applied to the Yagiiaruudi /at> 
y fl-eL* \aexicarii HaussurS, 1860, p. 1, is the^igerJit of Mexico; and Panlhera mex-\ 
wuna Litzinger, Sitzungsber., Akad. Wigs. WienfLlX, i860, p. 1260, is the Ocelot 
No. 1 of Major Lnitb. 
OceL>tj( Felix),. * Smith,; 1827. <-unnt 
• America and Mexico.) 
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the Ocelot: JSos. 1, 2, y, and 4-, including- t h e Js't-f jity-ilul-is of Linnteus, 
which latter Critiith in the fifth volume of the same work identifies 
with the Ocelot No. d of Smith. Griffith (Vol. V, p. 167) gives the 
new name chibigouazou ,to Smith’s Ocelot No. 1, thus restricting ocelot 
to Nos. 2 and 6, of which No. 2 came from South America and No. 8 
from Mexico, in 1838 Swain son named the Mexican “Ocelot No. S’ 5 
l * 1 dts canescens, which finally restricted the name ocelot to Smith’s 
Ocelot No. 2.’ As numerous names have been applied to the four 
forms which Major Smith figured as Nos. 1, 2, 3, and d, and described, 
successive■! vender the name Fdis ocelot , a statement of the earliest 
■available nah'fb lor each is given, as follows: 
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' ocelot Smith 
Ocelot No. 1. 
Ocelot No. 2. 
[From South America/ 
Ocelot No. 3. 
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.Acelot 
No. 4. 
- [From Mexico 
T. Felis chibigouazou 
Griffith, 1827. 
No. 2. Fdis ocelot-) Smith, , 
1827. 
NS. 3. Felis canescens Swain- 
son, 1838. 
No. 4. Feld . pardalis Lin¬ 
naeus, life. 
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The name Fells ocelot is thus restricted by elimination to the form ) 
■‘Ocelot No. 2.’’ If identical with the Chibigouazou of Azara, from 
Paraguay, as surmised by Major Smith, it belongs toa form not rep¬ 
resented in the collections which I have examined, and is probably 
entitled to recognition, as Smith’s figure of his Ocelot No. 2 is unlike 
the Brazilian specimens seen bv me. 
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Cwenuta (Felis}. Smith,; 1827. Griffith’s Animal Kingdom, II, p. 478, pi. 
The author (Smith) had seen two specimens. This Ocelot was sup 
posed by some writers to have come from Mexico, although Swainson 
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/Animals in Menageries, 1838, p. 125, rig. 19. 
Major Smith was the first naturalist WKb ‘made ns acquainted with this very ele¬ 
gant ocelot, which had probably been in some of our menageries unknown to science, 
and subsequently found its way into Bullock’s Museum, where this acute observer 
detected it. He also met with another specimen in the Berlin Museum, and made it 
known to the .Prussian professors. 
1 am unable to identify this anihial. It may have been the young 
of Fells pardalis Linmeus, although the describer states that the teeth 
showed it to be adult. 
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■ .JJhibigouazon {Felis). Griffith,', 182/! Animal Kingdom, V, 167, No. 431 
This is the “Felis Ocelot No. 1” of Maj. Charles Hamilton Smith. 
It is the earliest available name for the Ocelot which I have redescribed 
front Chapada, Brazil, with which Smith's plate figure arid description 
Fcmliensis (Felis)y Fa. (Jcvieii/ 182§) Nat. Hist. Mamin. 
Described from a caged specimen from the island of Cuba, supposed 
to have been brought there on shipboard from Brazil. Probably 
identical with Fells chibigouazou Griffith. Name preoccupied by Fells 
•a sIflens is Schinz, Thierreich, 1821, applied to the-^ackiguar. 
ArmUlata (Fddp" Fk. Cuvier, 1832. Hist. Nat. Mamin., IlrfffiLc^xffi Janu¬ 
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I he figure resembles the Brazilian Ocelot, but no locality is given, 
ihe specimen was living in the menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes. 
Canescens ( tells ). Swainson, 1838) Animals in Menageries, p. 118, fig. 16. 
1 his is Ocelot No. 3 of Maj. Charles Hamilton Smith, who observes: 
‘A young female of this is now in Mr. Bullock’s Mexican collection. 
It came from Mexico. I have examined five or six specimens, and 
believe 1 have sufficient grouuds for considering the differences 
between this and the preceding [Ocelot No. 2, from “South America”], 
not to arise from nonage.” Probably composite. If from Mexico, 
p erhaps Felis pat ‘da l is Lin n seus. 
'‘\dniiliii ( bells ). ^Swainson{[ i 83^! A nimals in Menageries, p. 120, rig. 17. 
Ibis is OcSTot No. 2 of Maj. Charles Hamilton Smith. In applying 
the name Jbel/is canescens to Smith’s Ocelot No. 3, Swainson hack 
restricted Smith’s Felis ocelot to No. 2. Fdis smitJdi therefore 
Legume at once a synonym of Felis ocelot Smith. 
’■'•-‘J AuaccM/o. (Felis)j Wagner, (1844/ Supplement to Sehreber’s Saugthiere. II, 
pi 492/ (South America. f ' 
It is the Felis pardalis of Wied, Beitrage zur Naturgesch. Bras., II, 
p. 861. Brazil aud Paraguay: Perhaps identical with Azara’s Chibi- 
Pictus ( Leopanlus ). J. E. Gray, 1842. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., X, p. 260. 
A very strongly colored Ocelot which I Lave not seen; front “Cen¬ 
tral America.” The description, given more in detail in Gray’s List 
.of JSlamiaals-iix. tae_J3jntiaa- - M u $ >sjbju».-. 3 '-’ASy-pT *2., and_ especially Jm the 
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for the year 1867, 
p. 271, does not agree with the Ocelot which I have named Felis 
casiarwet, ‘ 
J. E. Gray/ 1842! Ann. Ma g. Na t. Hist., X, 1842, p. 260. 
d'.Hab.j Central America. Both varieties in Brit. Mus.”) 
Latei , Giay stated that it came from Guatemala. 1 ant unable to 
tenti fy jt with any o f the forms which I have examined. 
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Pseudojxird alis (Mis)\ Bqjtard, 1842. Le Jardine des Plantes description et 
moeurs (tes Uahi i i uteres, etc., p.TST. 
Supposed to inhabit Mexico and the Bay of Campeche. Apparently 
a synonym of Fdis pardalis Linmeus. 
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