. The fur traders and fur bearing animals. Fur trade; Fur-bearing animals. The Cat Family. 129 Geoffroy's Cat (Felis-geoffroy), found in Paraguay and Chili, and the Ocelot-like cat (Felis-pardinoides) of the United States of Columbia, are species nearly related to the Margay cat. The former has a short whitish brown fur, with a white throat and a white streak on the cheeks, and numerous evenly distributed small black spots on the body. It also has four black streaks on the crown, two on the cheeks and one on the chest. The skull is short and broad. The Ocelot-like Cat measures eighteen inches
. The fur traders and fur bearing animals. Fur trade; Fur-bearing animals. The Cat Family. 129 Geoffroy's Cat (Felis-geoffroy), found in Paraguay and Chili, and the Ocelot-like cat (Felis-pardinoides) of the United States of Columbia, are species nearly related to the Margay cat. The former has a short whitish brown fur, with a white throat and a white streak on the cheeks, and numerous evenly distributed small black spots on the body. It also has four black streaks on the crown, two on the cheeks and one on the chest. The skull is short and broad. The Ocelot-like Cat measures eighteen inches without the ten inch tail, and has dark blotches with a black border, instead of the spots that distinguish the Geoffrey's Cat which it otherwise greatly The Ocelot. The Ocelot (Felis-pardalis.), the largest Leopard Cat of America, is from two to three feet long, and has a twelve- inch tail which is partly ringed. It is a lively and graceful animal, marked more or less with black on the face and light under parts; and showing a great variety of mark- ings on the back and sides. Some specimens are beauti- fully striped, while others are blotched like a dark tabby eat, but they are all characterized by the oblong shape of the dark spots with drab centers which appear on the sides; on the back the spots are always solid black. The Ocelot is the third largest of the American Felidae, and is sometimes called the Jungle Cat and the Young Jaguar. Its range is from Texas south through Mexico, Central America and South America, down to Southern Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Petersen, Marcus, 1854-. Buffalo, N. Y. , Hammond Press
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