1855. _Felis albescens_ Pucheran, in I. Geoffroy
Saint-Hilaire, Mammiferes, in Petit-Thoaurs, Voyage autor du
monde sur ... _la Venus_ ..., Zoologie, p. 149, type
locality, Arkansas.
1906. _Felis pardalis albescens_, J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer.
Mus. Nat. Hist., 22:219, July 25.
_Distribution in Tamaulipas._--All of state, except part
west of Sierra Madre Oriental.
Hall and Kelson (1959:961) reported from Tamaulipas two subspecies of
_Felis pardalis_. According to Goldman (1943:379) the more northern of
the two, _F. p. albescens_, is smaller than the more southern one, _F.
p. pardalis_. The skull examined, of a young female, from 10 miles
north of Altamira, in southern Tamaulipas, is small, smaller even than
skulls of _albescens_ from Texas used in comparison. For this reason I
here assign the specimen examined to _F. p. albescens_ instead of _F.
p. pardalis_ as did Hall and Kelson (_op. cit._). Hooper (1953:4) and
Dice (1937:251) report as _F. p. pardalis_ specimens from 10 miles
northeast of Zamorina and others from the Sierra San Carlos. I assume
that specimens from these two places should be referred to _albescens_
since the specimen from 10 miles north of Altamira, the southernmost
locality represented in Tamaulipas, is here referred to _albescens_.
_Measurements._--Skull, from 10 mi. N of Altamira, measured
as follows: condylobasal length, 97.3; zygomatic breadth,
77.6; squamosal constriction, 50.5; interorbital
constriction, 22.2; postorbital constriction, 32.1; length
of maxillary tooth-row, 34.7; length of upper carnassial
crown (outer side), 13.6.
_Records of occurrence._--One specimen examined, from 10 mi.
N Altamira.
Additional records: Matamoros (Goldman, 1943:379); Sierra
San Carlos (El Mulato and San Jose) (Dice, 1937:251); Soto
la Marina (Goldman, 1943:379); 10 mi. NE Zamorina (Hooper,
1934:4).
=Felis wiedii oaxacensis= Nelson and Goldman