[Aztlan] "Tiger Cat"

Jules Siegel jules at cafecancun.com
Sun Jul 27 09:29:32 CDT 2008


[That was a mess, so let's try this again --JS]

Meryl Green wrote:

 > "Mr. Fric( also brought home a type hitherto unknown, of much smaller
circumference and having the claws of the tiger cat, jaguarita,
instead." (p393)

Maybe it was a margay, Felis (Leopardus) wiedi Schinz: "Sometimes called
the long-tailed spotted cat, the name margay is an anglicised version of
“marguey” which translates as “tiger cat”. It is also referred to as the
little or tree ocelot." http://members.aol.com/cattrust/margay.htm

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