CHAPTEE VI. 



LEOPARDS. 



As might have been expected from the immense herds 

 of antelopes scattered all over Africa, the wild animals 

 which prey upon them are very numerously represented. 

 Lions, leopards, panthers, tiger-cats, hyenas, jackals, wild 

 dogs, and the smaller varieties of the cat and weasel tribes 

 are all common, and among them, passing over the hon, 

 the first two mentioned are best worth the hunter's atten- 

 tion. There seems to be some little confusion among 

 naturalists as to how many species of these exist in Africa, 

 but in the south and eastern portions of the continent 

 there are undoubtedly three, and in my experience no 

 more. Which of these, correctly speaking, is the panther, 



