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Rimau-dahan. It possesses many of the properties which belong to its larger relative, and 
is equally fond of climbing up, or resting on, the branches of trees. 
A very fine and healthy specimen of this animal is at present in the Zoological 
Gardens, and is always attractive to visitors whenever it will venture from its straw 
RIMAU-DAHAN.—Leopardus Macrocelis. 
couch. On the thick branches which are placed in its cage this leopard loves to repose, 
and sometimes assumes the strangest, and apparently the most uncomfortable, attitudes. 
Lately, I saw the creature lying at full length on a nearly horizontal pole, its right cheek 
pillowed on the bar, and all its four legs hanging down at each side of the pole. It was, 
in fact, lying astride the bar with all four legs at once. 
Ir the rimau-dahan be a gentle and quiet animal, it finds its contrast in the smaller, 
but more ferocious, creature, the CoLocoLo. ‘The colour of this creature is almost wholly 
grey, with the exception of the under parts of the body, the throat, and inside of the 
limbs, which are white. Black streaks, occasionally diversified with a deep tawny hue, are 
drawn at intervals over the body and limbs; the legs are of a darker grey than the rest of 
the body, and the tail is covered with a series of partial black rings, which extend only 
half way round that member. These black stripes are almost invariably edged with a deep 
tawny hue, and, on the shoulders, flanks, and thighs, they are entirely tawny. The lees 
themselves are darker than the rest of the body, being of a very deep grey. In size, the 
Colocolo equals or surpasses the ocelots, and, to judge from collateral evidence, is a terrible 
enemy to the animals among which it lives. 
A specimen of this creature was shot on the banks of a river in Guiana by an officer 
of rifles, who stuffed it, and placed the skin to dry on the awning of his boat. As the vessel 
