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F, leopanlus, L. (The Leopard.) From Africa ; similar to 

 the Panther, but has ten rows of smaller spots,(l) 



These two species are smaller than the Jaguar. Travellers 

 and furriers designate them indiscriminately by the names of 

 Leopard, Panther, Jifrican Tiger, &c.(2) 



There is a third, peculiar to the distant parts of the East In- 

 dies, that is a little lower ; tail equal in length to the body and 

 head ; spots smaller and more numerous ; the F. chalyheata, 

 Herm.; Schreb. CI. (3) 



F. discolor, lu.; Buff. VIII, xix. (The Couguar or Puma.) 

 Red, with small spots of a slightly deeper red which are not 

 easily perceived. From both Americas, where it preys on 

 Sheep, Deer, 8cc.(4) 



Among the inferior species, we should distinguish the Lynxes, 

 which are remarkable for the pencils of hair which ornament 

 their ears. 



Four or five different kinds of them are known in commerce 

 by the name of Loups Cerviers, which have long been con- 

 founded by naturalists, (Felis lynx, L.) and whose specific 

 limits are even not yet perhaps well ascertained. They all 

 have a very short tail, and a skin more or less spotted. 



The most beautiful, which are as large as a Wolf F. cervaria, 

 Temm. , come from Asia by the way of Russia, and have a 

 slightly reddish-grey fur, finely spotted with black. 



Others from Canada and the north of Sweden/', borealis, 



(1) The same naturalist considers our Leopard as a variety of our Panther, and 

 confounds them under his Felis kopardus. 



(2) KufTon has mistaken the Jaguar, which he took for the Panther of the eas- 

 tern continent, and has not well distinguished the Panther and the Leopard, and 

 for this reason we cannot positively quote his pi. xi, xii, xiii andxivof Vol. VIII. 



(3) It is to this species that Temminck affixes the name of Panther, because he 

 thinks Linnreus alluded to it, when speaking- of his Felis pardus in the ^'cauda 

 elongata." There is one thing very certain, and that is, that the Panther, so well 

 known to the ancients, and which was so often produced at the Roman games, 

 could not possibly have been an animal from the extreme parts of oriental Asia. 



The Once of Buff. IX, pi. xiii, {Felis imcia, Gm.) differs from the Panthers and 

 Leopards by the inequality of the spots, which are more irregularly chstributed, 

 and partly crenate or annidated, &c. It appears to be foimd in Persia. We only 

 know it by the figure of Buffon, and that which Mr Hamilton Smith has inserted 

 in the work of Griffith, taken from a specimen that was living in London. 



(4) That tliis animal, our common Panther, does not always confine itself to 

 Sheep, &c., is well known, and has lately been proved, January 1830, by an un- 

 provoked attack upon an unfortunate woman in Pennsylvania. The ferocious 

 brute seized upon her as she was passing along the road, and killed her in an 

 instant. See Griff, jiart V, p, 4,38. Am. Ed. 



