508 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
The HUNTING-LEOPARD or CHITA (Cynelurus jubatus). 
Although this animal is commonly called chita (cheetah) by Anglo- 
Indian sportsmen, that name is at least as often applied in India to 
the leopard. From all the true cats and lynxes the hunting-leopard 
differs by the claws being capable of only partial withdrawal into their 
sheaths, so that their tips are always exposed. The body also is more 
slender, and the limbs are proportionately longer. The black spots on 
the skin are small and without light centres, like those on the head of 
the leopard. Length, 7 feet or less ; height at shoulder, 30 to 39 inches. 
A specimen speared by Lieut.-Col. L. L. Fenton in Kathiawar measured 
6 feet 1 inch in length, the tail being 2 feet’ 21 inches. 
This animal is the “ Ihlose” of the Zulus and Swazis, and is distri- 
buted sparsely throughout S.E. Africa. Hunting-leopards usually hunt 
in couples, and fairly stalk their game, securing it with a swift rush at 
the last. Mr. F. Vaughan Kirby writes that “I have seen a party of 
six hunting together and another of eight. Though I have often 
tried, I have never yet succeeded in running into one on horseback ; 
they are incredibly swift of foot. They invariably kill their prey by 
strangulation.” 
Distribution.—Africa and South-Western Asia, extending from Persia 
to Western Turkestan and the countries east of the Caspian, 
and eastwards into India; unknown in the latter country on the 
Malabar coast and to the north of the Ganges, as it also is in 
Ceylon. 
Length of Height at 
Length. all eneaidee Locality. Owner. 
ft. ins. ft., Ans. 
7 9 ae es East Africa : 5 Capt. R. Meinertzhagen. 
-7 34 ss sp N.W. Rhodesia . : CG. H.S. Bellis: 
1363 Ibs. 
-6 6 22 East Africa : : Percy C. Madeira. 
-6 6 2 ' 64 Zululand . : ; A. Cameron. 
6 42 2 34 283 N.E. Transvaal , Dr. Percy Rendall. 
go lbs. 
Guanes 2 4% 293 East Africa : ; H. C. Williams. 
— Owner's measurements. 
The following are the dimensions of a specimen shot in the Eastern 
Transvaal by Mr. F. Vaughan Kirby :— 
Total length in straight line. Do. over all. Tail. Vertical height. Girth of forearm. Do. shoulders. 
6 ft. 8 ins. 7 it. 7s. 2: oims. ~ 2). Tiss, 8} ins. 31 ins. 
