202 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
I. THE HUNTING-LEOMM®RD. CYNALURUS JUBATUS. 
Felis jubata, Erxleben, Syst. Regn. Anim. p. 510 (1777). 
Felis guttata, Hermann, Observ. Zool. p. 38 (1804). 
Cynailurus jubatus, Wagler, Syst. Amphib. p. 30 (1830); 
Elliot, Monogr. Felidze, pl. xliii. (1878-83). 
Cynofelis jubata and C. guttata, Lesson, Nouv. Table. Régn. 
Anim. p. 49 (1842). 
Gueparda guttata, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 277; id., 
Cat. Carniv. Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 39 (1869). 
Felis megaballa, Heuglin, Zeitschr. Allgem. Erdkunde, vol. iii. 
p- 53 (1868). 
Felis lanea, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 532; Mivart, 
The Cat, p. 429 (1881). 
Cynelurus jubatus and C. ldaneus, Blanford, Mamm. Brit. 
India, pp. 90, 91 (1888). 
(Plate XX V.) 
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 
