fiDKrAKDlII.K. 39 



Fam. 2. GUEPARDID.^. 



Head short, subglobular ; face very short. N"eck slightly niaued. 

 Legs elongate, slender, subequal. Tail elongate. Ears rounded. 

 Pupil round ? SkuU — face very short, convex ; the processes of the 

 frontals and intermaxilla) very short, not separating the nasals from 

 the maxiUa) ; the flesh-tooth of the upper jaw comjjressed, Tvithout 

 jiny lobe, but with only a very slightly marked keel on the front 

 part of the inner side ; the front upper false grinder distinct, small ; 

 orbits incomplete, moderate. Tubercular grinders one on each side 

 of the upper jaw. 



The form of the flesh-tooth of the Hunting Leopard (Guepania) 

 at once separates it from all the Cats as distinctly as its long 

 slender legs and round face. The flesh-tooth of the upper jaw, 

 instead of being stout and having a more or less large but always 

 distinctly marked prominence with a conical crown on the front of 

 the inner edge, as is common to the skulls of all the Cats and 

 Lynxes, in the Gueparda, on the contrary, is thin, compressed lon- 

 gitudinally, and has only a vory slightlj' raised scarcely visible keeled 

 ridge on that part. Tliis process is represented as rather more pro- 

 minent in M. de Blainvillc's figure of the skull ( Ostoograpliie, Fells, 

 t. 0) than it is in the specimens in the British iluseum. 



Guepardinse, Gray, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 277. 

 Abnormal Cat, Grai/, P. Z. S. 1SC7, p. 277. 



GUEPARDA. 



Gueparda, Grni/, 1840; P. Z. 8. 18G7, p. 277. ^ ^ ^ ^ _?f •• 



Cyn;ohu-us, Wa(jncr. •.j^* C^^tt. CLfiti.tJl^-^mc^ v **^— , 



Gueparda guttata. o^ IjjX. / 



Felis guttata, Henn. ; JJhiiiiv. Odioi/r. Felis, t. 4 (^skeleton), t. 9 



(skull). 

 Felis jubata, Schreh. 

 Felis venatica, A. Smith. 

 Felis Fearoiiis, A. Smith. 

 Cvnn^lurus Scemmeriugii, RiippcU. 

 Junior. Gueparda guttata, Grmj, P. Z. S. 1867, p. '-'lOCi, t. 24. 



Jffih. Africa and Asia ; Persia ; Cape of Good Hope. 



The young Hunting Leopard (Gurparthi t/xttita) I do not recol- 

 lect to have seen described. It is covered witli long soft hair, of a 

 dark blackish-brown colour, on the limbs, sides, and beneatli, and 

 very obscuixdy spotted ; the head, back of the nock, the back, and 



