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Pocock, R.I.
The races of the ocelot and the margay
1941 Zoological Series (27): 319-369
This paper is an effort to disentangle some of the knots of difficulties in the determination and distribution of the described local races of two American tiger cats, the last attempt of the kind having been made in 1919 by J.A. Allen, who was the first to assign all the known forms of each to a single species. The paper is based primarily on the skins and skulls in the British Museum, and incidentally, from examination of the types, I have been able to settle, at all events to my own satisfaction, the position of the three forms of ocelot called _griseus_ and _pictus_ by Gray and _melanura_ by Ball which my predecessors of this century set aside as indeterminable. It is regrettable that apparently the least known of all the races of ocelot is the typical form _Leopardus pardalis pardalis_ Linnaeus. From lack of material I have been unable to add anything of importance to our knowledge of this race, and in the account of it I have been compelled to rely on the meager, sometimes conflicting information supplied by American authors.
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