20 2 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



I. THE HUNTING-LEOPARD. CYN^ELURUS JUBATUS. 



Felt's jubata, Erxleben, Syst. Regn. Anim. p. 510 (1777). 

 Felts guttata, Hermann, Observ. Zool. p. 38 (1804). 

 Cynailurus Jubatus, Wagler, Syst. Amphib. p. 30 (1830); 



Elliot, Monogr. Felidae, pi. xliii. (1878-83). 

 Cynofelis jubata and C. guttata, Lesson, Nouv. Table. Regn. 



Anim. p. 49 (1842). 

 Gueparda guttata, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 277; id., 



Cat. Carniv. Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 39 (1869). 

 Felt's megaballa, Heuglin, Zeitschr. Allgem. Erdkunde, vol. iii. 



p. 53 (1868). 

 Felis la?iea, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 532 ; Mivart, 



The Cat, p. 429 (1881). 

 Cynailurus jubatus and C. laneus, Blanford, Mamm. Brit. 



India, pp. 90, 91 (1888). 



{Plate XXV.) 

 Characters. — Size about the same as that of the Leopard, but 

 form more slender, and limbs longer. Ears short and rounded ; 

 fur coarse, hair of neck somewhat lengthened, and that of the 

 under-parts rather long and shaggy; tail more than half the length 

 of head and body. Ground-colour of upper-parts varying from 

 tawny to bright rufous-fawn, becoming paler beneath ; marked 

 almost throughout with small solid black spots ; chin and 

 throat buffish-white without spots ; a black streak from the 

 outer corner of each eye to the lip, and another (or a line of 

 spots) from the inner corner to below the ear ; ear black ex- 

 ternally, with tawny base and margin ; tail spotted on upper 

 surface, the spots towards the tip passing into imperfect rings. 

 Cubs covered with uniformly grey long hair, but with spots show- 

 ing on the under-fur. Pupil of eye circular when contracted. 

 Skull vaulted and broad, very convex at the crown, and the 

 facial portion short with the nasals broad and wide ; orbits in- 

 complete behind; anterior upper pre-molar tooth generally 



