Volume 3

The viviparous quadrupeds of North America / By John James Audubon ... and ... John Bachman.

  • Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Date:
1846-1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The viviparous quadrupeds of North America / By John James Audubon ... and ... John Bachman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    QUADRUPEDS OF NORTH AMERICA. FF.LIS ONCA.—Linn. •Jaguar. PLATE Cl.—Female. F, Supra fulva, subtus albus ; corpore ocellis annularibus nigris ornato, in series subparallelis per longitudinem dispositis ; ocellis, punctis nigris subcentralibus, in signitis. CHARACTERS. Yellow, with a white belly ; body marked with open black circle-like figures, each containing one or more nearly central black dots ; these black, circle-like markings disposed in nearly longitudinal parallel lines. SYNONYMES. Felis Onca. Linn. Syst. Natur. vol. xii. p. 61; Gmel. vol. i. p. JV, pi. 4 (4 ed.). “ “ Schreber, Saugth. p. 388, pi. 6. “ “ Erxleben Syst. p. 513, pi. 9. “ “ Zimm. Geogr. Gesch. ii. pp. 162, 268. “ “ Cuv. Ann. du Mus. xiv. p. 144. 4 T. 16. “ “ “ Regne Animale, vol. i. p. 260. Osseraents Fossiles, vol. iv. p. 417. “ “ F. Cuv. Diet. Sci. Nat., vol. viii. p. 223. “ “ Desm. in Nouv. Diet., vol. vi. p. 97, pi. 4, “ “ “ Mammal., pp. 219, 338. “ “ Desmoulins, Diet. Class 3d, p. 498. “ “ Temm. Monog., p. 136. “ Panthera. Sehreber, t, 99. “ Cauda Elongata. Brown’s Jamaiea. Tigris Regia. Briss. Regne Animale, p. 269, fig. 7. TOL. III.—1