See also:

• JAGUAR
• JAGUAR (Fells onca)

JAGUAR (Fells onca)  , the largest See also:

• SPECIES

species of the Felidav found on the See also:

• AMERICAN

American See also:

• CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent, where it ranges from See also:

• TEXAS

Texas through Central and See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• AMERICA

America to See also:

• PATAGONIA

Patagonia . In the countries which See also:

• BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound its See also:

• NORTHERN

northern limit it is not frequently met with, but in South America it is quite See also:

• COMMON

common, and See also:

• DON
• DON (anc. Tanais)

Don See also:

• FELIX
• FELIX, ANTONIUS
• FELIX, LIA (1830– )

Felix de See also:

• AZARA, DON JOSE NICHOLAS DE (1731-1804)

Azara states that when the Spaniards first settled in the See also:

• DISTRICT

district between See also:

• MONTEVIDEO, SAN FELIPE Y SANTIAGO DE

Montevideo and See also:

• SANTA

Santa Fe, as many as two thousand were killed yearly . The See also:

• JAGUAR
• JAGUAR (Fells onca)

jaguar is usually found singly (sometimes in pairs), and preys upon such quadrupeds as the See also:

• HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse, See also:

• TAPIR

tapir, See also:

• CAPYBARA

capybara, See also:

• DOGS, ISLE OF

dogs or See also:

• CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle . It often feeds on fresh-See also:

• WATER

water turtles; sometimes following the See also:

• REPTILES (Lat. Reptilia, creeping things, from reptilis; ref ere, to creep; Gr. Ep7rety, whence the term " herpetology," for the science dealing with them)

reptiles into the water to effect a See also:

• CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

capture, it inserts a paw between the shells and drags out the See also:

• BODY

body of the turtle by means of its See also:

• SHARP, GRANVILLE (1735-1813)
• SHARP, JAMES (1618-1679)
• SHARP, JOHN (1645-1714)
• SHARP, RICHARD (1759-1835)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1749-1824)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1856-1905)

sharp claws . Occasionally after having tasted human flesh, the jaguar becomes a confirmed See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man-eater . The cry of this See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• CAT
• CAT, CIVET
• CAT, HOUSE

cat, which is heard at See also:

• NIGHT

night, and most frequently during the pairing See also:

• SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season, is deep and hoarse in See also:

• TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)

tone, and consists of the See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound pu, pu, often repeated . The See also:

• FEMALE

female brings forth from two to four cubs towards the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of the See also:

• YEAR

year, which are able to follow their See also:

• MOTHER

mother in about fifteen days after See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth . The ground See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour of the jaguar varies greatly, ranging from See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white to See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black, the rosette markings in the extremes being but faintlyvisible . The See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general or typical coloration is, however, a See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich tan upon the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head, See also:

• NECK (O. Eng. hnecca; the word appears in many Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch ride, Ger. Nacken; in O. E. the common word was heals; cf. Ger. Hals)

neck, body, outside of legs, and tail near the See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root . The upper See also:

• PART

part of the head and sides of the See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face are thickly marked with small black spots, and the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of body is covered with rosettes, formed of rings of black spots, with a black spot in the centre, and ranged lengthwise along the body in five to seven rows on each See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side . These black rings are heaviest along the back . The lips, See also:

• THROAT (O. Eng. protu, prote or }Prota, possibly from preotan, to press, whence threat, or, with loss of initial s, connected with strut, to swell)

throat, See also:

• BREAST (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. the Ger. Brust, possibly connected with an O. Sax. brustian, to bud)

breast and belly, the inside of the legs and the See also:

• LOWER

lower sides of tail are pure white, marked with irregular spots of black, those on the breast being See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long bars and on the belly and inside of legs large blotches .

The tail has large black spots near the root, some with See also:

• LIGHT

light centres, and from about midway of its length to the tip it is ringed with black . The ears are black The Jaguar (Fells onca) . behind, with a large See also:

• BUFF (from Fr. bu.ffie, a buffalo)

buff spot near the tip . The See also:

• NOSE (O.Eng. nosu, cf. Dutch neus, Swed. nos, snout; the Aix in Provence. Both at Aix and at Lyons he acquired great connexion with O.Eng. nasu is obscure, cf. Ger. Nase, Lat. pares, distinction by his labours during outbreaks of the plague. In nostrils,

nose and upper See also:

• LIP (a word common in various forms, to Teutonic languages, cf Ger. Lippe, Dan. laebe; Lat. labium is cognate)

lip are light rufous See also:

• BROWN
• BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
• BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
• BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
• BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
• BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
• BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
• BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
• BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
• BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
• BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
• BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
• BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
• BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
• BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
• BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
• BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
• BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
• BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
• BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
• BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
• BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
• BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)

brown . The See also:

• SIZE

size varies, the See also:

• TOTAL

total length of a very large specimen measuring 6 ft . 9 in.; the See also:

• AVERAGE

average length, however, is about 4 ft. from the nose to root of tail . In See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form the jaguar is thick-set; it does not stand high upon its legs; and in comparison with the See also:

• LEOPARD

leopard is heavily built; but its movements are very rapid, and it is fully as agile as its more graceful relative . The See also:

• SKULL

skull resembles that of the See also:

• LION
• LION (Lat, leo, leonis; Gr. Mew)

lion and See also:

• TIGER
• TIGER (Felis tigris)

tiger, but is much broader in proportion to its length, and may be identified by the presence of a tubercle on the inner edge of the See also:

• ORBIT (from Lat. orbita, a track, orbis, a wheel)

orbit . The species has been divided into a number of See also:

• LOCAL

local forms, regarded by some American naturalists as distinct species, but preferably ranked as sub-species or races .