. Animals in menageries. he ear: onthe shoulders and flanks there are four or five long,open, fulvous spots, bordered with a chain of black : onthe rest of the body, back, and hams there are smallopen spots: the tail is annrdated, and the tip black : onthe fore legs and the lower part of the hind legs aiesmall black spots. These characters we shall condense in the following * Griff. Cuv. I 3 118 ANIMALS IN MENAGERIES. specific character, which differs someAvhat from thatproposed in the Si/nopsis : — Nose, paws, and upper por-tion of the hody and limbs fulvous : temples ochrey :ground colour wh
. Animals in menageries. he ear: onthe shoulders and flanks there are four or five long,open, fulvous spots, bordered with a chain of black : onthe rest of the body, back, and hams there are smallopen spots: the tail is annrdated, and the tip black : onthe fore legs and the lower part of the hind legs aiesmall black spots. These characters we shall condense in the following * Griff. Cuv. I 3 118 ANIMALS IN MENAGERIES. specific character, which differs someAvhat from thatproposed in the Si/nopsis : — Nose, paws, and upper por-tion of the hody and limbs fulvous : temples ochrey :ground colour white : shoulders and flanks with four orfive long fulvous spots, margined with an interruptedblack border : back, rump, and hams with smaller andmore circular spots: forehead covered with numeroussmall, bla-ck, entire spots. The Greyish Ocelot. Fells canescens, Nobis. Felis Ocelot y, or Ocelot No. S., of Hamilton Smith, Griff. Cuv. ii. 47G. Felis Macrourus? Long-tailed Tiger-Cat, Swains. Zuol. of Mexico, p. 5.{Fig. 16.). To this ocelot, described by major Smith, but merelydesignated by a number^ we have given, conditionally,a specific name, — a plan which is more convenient tothe zoologist, and preferable to the usual mode pursued onthese occasions; since it will convey some idea of its pe-culiarities, and may be retained either to designate it asa species or as a variety. The whole of these beautiful_,and to a certain degree domestic, animals are highlyworthy of being imported into our menageries; andconsidering the great number of our countrymennow settled in various parts of South America, whenceall the ocelots yet known have been brought, we makeno apology for bringing them more immediately undernotice. There can be no doubt that several of thesesmaller cats are fully capable of as much docility as thatspecies which has been so long domesticated; and wecannot conceive a more desirable naturalisation, than to GREYISH OCELOT. 119 see one of these beautiful anirnals reposin
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