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Genus Feuis. Linneeus. 
Ktymology—Latin, Felis, a cat. 
1735. Felis, Linneeus, Sytema Nature, I. , 
The Cats are readily known from the Lynxes by the generic marks 
given above. They are marked externally by the long tapering (some- 
times tufted) tail, always as long as half the body, exclusive of head and 
neck. The fur is compact, close and glossy, often with symmetrical pat- 
terns of coloration. The ears have no pencil of hairs at the tip. The 
general aspect is cat-like. | 
Besides F. concolor, the Panther, the type of the American species, 
four representat‘ves of this well known genus are found in the United 
States: & onca (Linnecus), the Jaguar, or American Tiger, from the Red 
River of Louisiana south to Patagonia, the largest of the American cats; 
F. pardalis (Linneus), the Ocelot, or Tiger Cat, from the Red River 
throughout the lower country of Texas; F. eyra (Desm.) the Tiger Cat, 
a uniform brownish-red cat of the size of the house cat, from the Rio 
Grande of Texas through Mexico and Central America to Guiana; 
F. yaguarund: (Desm.), a grizzled, brownish-gray cat, larger and more 
elongate than the common cat. It ravages from the Rio Grande to Par- 
aguay. 
FELIS concotor. (Linneeus). 
PANTHER; COUGAR; Rocky MOUNTAIN LION; PAINTER; PUMA; BLACK PUMA. 
1771. Felis concolor, Linn., Mantissa, 1771, 552.—Erxl., Syst. Reg. 
Anim., 1777, 511, sp. 17.—Bodd., El. Anim., 1784, 90.—Gmel., 
Syst. Nat., 1788, vol. i, pt. i, 79, sp. 9.—Schreb., Saugth., 1778, 
th. iii, 394, tab. civ.—F. Cuv., Hist. Nat. Mamm., 1829, vol. 11, 
pl. 148.—Cuv., Ossem. Foss., 1825, vol. iv., 40—Temm., Mon. 
~Mammif., 1827, 184.—Wils., [llust. Zool., 1831, pl. i—Maxilian, 
Beitr. Naturg. Brasil., 1826, band 11, 358. Reug., Zool. Journ., 
1835, vol. v., 476.—Fuller, P. Z. 8., 1836, 62.—Azara, Nat. Hist. 
Quad. Parag., 1838, 207.—Swains., Anim. Menag., 106.—Rich., 
Zool. Beechey’s Voy., Mam, 1839, 6.—Griff, Anim. King. 1827, 
436.—Burm., Weber. Thier. Bras., 1854, 88.—Murr., Geog. Distr. 
Anim., 1866, 100.—Gerv., Nat. Hist. Mam., 1855, 89.—Blainv., 
Osteog., 1889-64, vol. ii., atl. vi., pls. xi, xiv.—Fisch., Zoogu., 
1814, 228, sp. 5.—Id., Syn., 1829, 197.—Jard., Nat. Libr., vol. 
xvi, 124, pls. iv, v—Desm., Mammal., 1820, 218, No. 336, pl. 94, 
fir. 102.—D’Orbig., Voy. Amer. Merid., 1847, 21, Mamm.—Barth.., 
P. Z. S., 1861, 141.—Cunningh., P. Z. S. 1868, 185.—Sclat., P. Z. 
S., 1868, 62 .—Temm., Mon. Mamm., 1827, vol. i, 134, et App 
