THK JAGUAR, OR AMERICAN PANTHER. 



Feiis onca LINNJEUS 

 PLATE X. XI. XII. 



Yagiiaretd, Azara. Le Jaguar, ou Tigre d'Amerique, 

 Cuvier, Regne Animal, i. 161. Frederic Cuvier, Histoire 



Naturelle des Mammiferes. Male and Female Felis 



Jaguar, Temminck, Monographies, p. 136. Desmaresfs 

 Mammalogie, p. 229 The Jaguar, or American Panther, 

 J. Wilson, Zoological Illustrations, pi. ix Griffith, Ani- 

 mal Kingdom, pis. Greater and Lesser variety. 



THE continents of Asia and Africa we have seen 

 inhabited by species beautiful from the rich and 

 spotted markings of their skins ; while their size and 

 proportions were still large and powerful. In the 

 warmer parts of the New World, we have a proto- 

 type, rivalling them in beauty, and exceeding them 

 in strength, but apparently filling the same station 

 in animal life. 



The Jaguar, or, as he is sometimes called, the 

 American Panther, inhabits the warmer parts of 

 South America, chiefly Paraguay and the Brazils, 

 but is nevertheless found from the most southern 

 extremity to the isthmus of Darien. It is one of the 

 strongest and most powerful of the Felinse after the 



