74 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
As we shall have no more@® say with regard to the Hunting- 
Leopard, we may dismiss this part of our subject with the 
following table, showing the various usages of the above-men- 
tioned names :— 
Hindustani. Ancient. Modern. Scientific. 
Chita Pard ... Leopard 
(rat ... Ilunting-Leopard .... Cyaelurus jubatus 
Panther, -... -Panther 
ay ; Felts pardus. 
This, however, by no means exhausts the subject of the 
confusion of nomenclature, for there is an equal discrepancy 
in the use of the terms Leopard and Panther. As we have 
already mentioned, there is but one type of these animals in 
Africa to which it would appear that the name of Panther is 
probably strictly applicable. In India, on the other hand, two 
forms are generally recognised. ‘Thus there is, firstly, a large 
kind, characterised by the tail being shorter than the head 
and body, by the long head, and by the spots being large 
and clearly defined, on a pale ground-colour. Secondly, 
we have a smaller animal, in which the tail is as long as 
the head and body, the head is short, and the spots are 
less distinctly defined, of smaller size, and placed closer 
together. 
Now, the latter smaller form was identified by Temminck 
with the African animal, and accordingly termed the Panther 
(F. pardus), while the larger kind was called the Leopard (7 
leopardus). ‘This usage is followed by Mr. Sterndale in his 
work on Indian Mammals, and appears undoubtedly to be 
the right one if we regard the smaller Indian form as indistin- 
guishable from the African animal. On the other hand, we 
find Jerdon, following the lead of Indian sportsmen, applying 
the term Panther to the larger form, and Leopard to the 
smaller one, this usage being adopted by Mr. Saunderson and 
most other sporting writers. We thus have two diagrammati- 
