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As the result of this comparison, Dr. Anderson is led to 
conclude that the northern Chinese Leopard, if not entitled 
to rank as a distinct species, is at least a very well-marked 
race. 
In conclusion, it may be mentioned as not a little remarkable, 
that the only two skulls of this form preserved in the collection 
of the British Museum, both, as pointed out by Mr. Bateson, 
exhibit an abnormality in the dentition; the one having a 
supernumerary last molar on the left side of the upper jaw, 
while, in the other, the last right lower pre-molar has an 
additional cusp on its hinder border. 
Habits.—In spite of their marked difference in coloration, the 
three great Cats of the warmer regions of the Old World, 
namely the Lion, Tiger, and Leopard, are structurally very 
closely allied to one another. Whereas, however, the two 
form2r are not climbers, the third is essentially an arboreal 
animal, resembling in this respect the majority of the smaller 
members of the Family. Moreover, according to information 
kindly supplied by General Paget, there is a marked difference 
between the Leopard and the Tiger, in the manner in which 
they commence to devour their prey, the former always begin- 
ning on the shoulder of its “kill,” whereas the latter invariably 
takes the first bite at the hind-quarters. Leopards, in common 
with several others of the larger Cats, attack an animal by 
springing on its neck. Mr. A. Whyte, who was recently col- 
lecting animals in Nyasaland, mentions, however, an instance 
where a Leopard killed a full-grown denkey by attacking it in 
the flank and disembowelling it. Headds that ‘‘another most 
unusual occurrence in this case was that the Leopard returned 
to the carcase, and was shot dead on the third night, after 
having been wounded on the chest the second night with a 
charge of small shot, which was afterwards found under its 
skin.” The proximity of water is far less essential to Leopards 
