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Show 264 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE SKULLS OF THE FELIDA. [Mar. 14, Var. Black.-F. melas, Pe'ron. F. fusca, Meyer. Hab. Southern Asia; North, South, and West Africa. Pupil round.-Bartlett; Gray. Very variable in the size and number of the spots. Skull: nasal elongate, back edge on a line with back edge of maxilla ; internal nostril rather narrow. Length 91 inches, width 5f inches. 2. LEOPARDUS JAPONENSIS, Gray, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 262, t. 33. Hab. Japan. Fig. 2. Leopardus chinensis. 3. L E O P A R D U S CHINENSIS. (Fig. 2.) Skull (in British Museum) very like that of a Leopard, but shorter; and the nose, instead of being nearly flat, is regularly arched before the orbits. Hab. Pekin, mountain-forests of the west. Skull: length 6£ inches, width 4f inches. Nasal wide, flat; apex produced rather behind the back edge of the maxilla. Processes of the intermaxilla very slender, short; forehead broad, convex. This may be the skull of L. brachyurus. There are two or three skulls of Leopards in the Museum received from Utrecht without habitats, that rather resemble the Pekin specimen, which was presented to us by Dr. Lockhart. 4. LEOPARDUS ONCA. Felis onca, Linn. F. panthera, Schreb. ; Cuvier, Oss. Foss. t. 34. f. 3, 4. Jaguar, Buffon. Var. Black.-Felis nigra, Erxl. |