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in search of a chamois, or anything else they can get. It is most difficult 

 to keep them down by strychnine, for they very seldom feed on animals 

 which they have not killed themselves. Two years ago the keepers 

 succeeded in poisoning two in one week. . . . On 17th September, as we 

 were crossing the Urushten stream on our way from one camp to another, 

 we suddenly saw a hind going at full speed and a leopard following her at 

 very close quarters. . . . This was the only glimpse I had of one." 



THE MANCHURIAN LEOPARD 



( Ft'// J- pardiis fontanieri) 

 (Plate V. Fig. 6) 



The Manchurian representative of the leopard is a very distinct form, 

 which was first described by the late Professor Milne-Edwards on the 

 evidence of a specimen brought from Manchuria to Paris by Monsieur 

 Fontanier, who collected so many animals from that part of Asia. Like 

 the Persian leopard, the present animal has been described at some length 

 in the Great and Small Game of Iiulia, etc., but since it is peculiar to a 

 portion ot the area treated of in the present volume, that account may 

 be repeated. In its general massiveness of build the leopard of Manchuria 

 is very similar to the tiger of the same region, having stout and somewhat 

 clumsily built limbs, a relatively short and broad head, and long thick fur. 

 The spots are much larger and more widely separated from one another 

 than is the case in the Indian leopard. The ground-colour of the fur is 

 very pale sandy, but the light centres of the black rosettes, especially on the 

 back, are very much darker than the general body-colour. The solid spots 

 of the head are continued on to the region of the shoulders, and thence down 

 the whole of the fore-limbs, similar solid spots reappearing on the hind- 



