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FELIS TIGRINA
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of that anim. ‘male seen by Azara weighed thirty-five pounds. Average length 3 fect 6 inches. One
measured 4 fect in length tail 13 inches,
Molina, n his work on the Natural History of Clili, when describing his F. guigna, states that it seems to be a varity
of the Margay; and from the description it would appear that he had a specimen ofthe F. tigrina before him.
‘The following descriptions will give an idea of the different variations of this Cat. ‘The fist may be considered the
typical style -—
FELIS TIGRINA
General colour light rufous-brown. Four narrow brownish:-black lines, two from between and two
Far soft, not ong.
nd to the base of the neck, where they become broader
from the comer of the eyes, pass over the top of the head
fand black. A line of white between the nose and eyes. Two narrow brown lines eross the cheek from the eyes, and
treet another broader irregular dark brown line passing neross the side of the throat under the jaw. Check, throat, breast,
ind belly heve their ground-colour white. ‘The entire boy, back, sides, and belly thickly covered with round brownish
black spots forming lines on the back
Tike the back, the spots reaching nearly to the feet onthe fore legs, b
covered with blackish spots Hke the body, and inlining to rings near the tips the ground-colour rufous like the body
Back of ears rufous, black on outer edge. Entire length 2
Te breast is exossed by four or five irregular brownish-black lines. Legs spo
‘only to the knees on the hind ones. Tal lon
4 inchs, tail 11
Another specimen is greyih, with very large brown spots on the flake, the ines on the head and breast are back, and
there is none of the rufous eolouring observed on the specimen described above
“t thin specimen diem again, in being yellowish brown on the body, covered with rather elongated blackish spots
bors on breast black. All three specimens are in the British-Museum collection.
A fourth example has the fur soft and short; head, back, shoulders, flanks, and Joins
sfous on the back and hind part of neck, covered with lines and irregular broken black spots, many with
The shoulders have lines, the Ioins spots of black; flanks covered with iregular black rings with rufous ce
‘chin, oat, breast, and belly pure white. ‘The usual twvo black lines across the checks, and the single
prt of the throat. ‘Two ire
ars black, with a white spot near the upper outside edge. cight or
not very dstinet. Belly spotted with black. Back of
ine black bars becoming wider as
they near the tip; the ground-olour like the body
A fifth specimen has the general colour rich reddish buif, darkest alon ‘The usual narrow black lines along
the top of head, which become quite bond and broken upon the shoulders and back: Shoulders flanks, and nin thickly
Black spots which deerease in size towards the lower parts of the legx. Check, throat breast, belly, end
covered with
1 breast,
inde of legs pure white; the fist having two black lines c it from the eye to beneath the ear. ‘Throat
sawed by bre or ex black Hines. Belly spotted with blackish brown, as is also the inside of the legs; two black bars
crete let near the body. Lips white. Ears behind black, with a white spot near the outer edge. Tail very long
sr colour as the back, becoming paler towards the tip, semi-ringed with blackish brown ; underneath yellowish white
This isthe F, macrowra style. Both of the lst two specimens described are in the Paris Museum.
An exuuple in the British Muscum, instead of having the spots of the body solid and black, hs iregular blackish
rings with dark rufous centres, the size of these being twice that of those in other specimens. A sccond, also in the
British Museum, has the spots uniform black and rather small. Entie length 30 inches, tail 15.
The skull of F trina is long; the face on a level with the forehead; nasals broad for their length, narrowing, rapidly
to their frontal articulation, the ends almost pointed. Orbits incomplete. Brainease fall and wide, though evenly rounded
tind oblong in shape, Malar bones deep, and forming with the zygoma an almost quadrilateral opening. Auditory
bulle lange and soollen, narrowing anteriorly, Nasal apertures oblong in shape. Infrnorbital foramina Size of |