200 MAMMALIA OF INDIA. 
conscious of having done wrong, quite ready to promise faithfully never 
to do it again.” 
We now take up the last member of the Cat family; one differing 
so much in certain respects as to have been classed by some authors as 
a separate genus, to which Wagner gave the name of Cyne@lurus, or 
dog-cat, which, however, is not appropriate, as the animal, though 
having the slender form of the greyhound, and in having the claws of 
its middle front toes but imperfectly retractile, is, in its anatomy and all 
osteological features, a true cat. As I have before remarked it is to 
this animal alone that the name leopard should be applied, the peculiar 
ruff or shagginess of hair on the neck having given rise to the ancient 
superstition that this animal was a cross between the lion and the 
pard, whence its name Leo-Pardus. There are three varieties found 
in Africa and India—one, the maneless leopard, is confined to | 
Africa, where also is found in the south a woolly variety with light 
brown spots. The maned leopard is found all over South-West Asia, 
including India. 
No. 219. FELIS JUBATA. 
The Hunting Leopard (Jerdon’s No. 117). 
Native NamMes.—C/iza, Hindi; Yuz of the Chita-catchers; Kendua- 
bagh, Bengali; Zaggar in some parts; Chita Puli, Telegu; Chircha 
and Szvungz, Canarese. 
Hasitrat.—Central or Southern India, and in the North-West from 
Kandeish, through Scinde and Rajpootana, to the Punjab. It is also 
found in all Africa, with Syria and Arabia, and throughout Asia Minor. 
In India the places where it is most common are Jeypur in Upper 
India, and Hyderabad in Southern India. 
DerscripTion.—A tall, slim animal, with body much drawn in at the 
flanks like a greyhound ; purely 
cat-like head with short round 
ears ; long tail, much compressed 
at the end; in colour a bright 
rufous fawn, more or less deep, 
sometimes what Blyth calls a 
bright zankeen, dotted with nu- 
merous small black spots which 
are single, and not in rosettes, 
as in the pards; a black streak 
from the corner of the eye down 
Skull of Fedis jubata. the face; ears black at base ex- 
ternally, the rest whitish ; the tail 
spotted, but having three or four black rings at the tip: the extreme tip 
is always white; the hair of the belly is lengthened with a shaggy 
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