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The thick woolly fur of this leopard is indicative of its high mountain habitat 

 in Szechwan. 



Cabrera (1910, p. 426) attempts to show that Gray's name japonensis 

 should replace fontanieri on the ground that Gray's specimen came probably 

 from North China instead of Japan, a conclusion that may prove well founded ; 

 but the name is inapplicable since it was previously employed by Boddaert for 

 a variety of the house cat. 



FELIS PARDUS VARIEGATA (Wagner). 



In the Yangtze valley, at Changyanghsien, Hupeh, Mr. Zappey shot a fine 

 adult male leopard, which is clearly a very different animal from fontanieri of 

 the Szechwan highlands. Compared with our skins of the latter from Tachienlu 

 it is larger and much richer in color, with more deeply black spots. The dorsal 

 tawny areas are between ochraceous and orange-ochraceous paling to buff on 

 the flanks. The spots are more sharply defined and of a deeper shining black. 

 The hair, too, notwithstanding that this is a winter specimen killed February 2, 

 1909, is comparatively much shorter (26 mm. in length mid-dorsally between 

 the shoulders as against about 40 in fontanieri) and without the woolly underfur 

 of the latter. The black hairs are only very inconspicuously chocolate-colored 

 at their extreme bases. The collector's measurements of this specimen in the 

 flesh are: total length, 2080; tail, 850; hind foot, 260; height at the shoulder, 

 610. The skull is large and heavily built and does not appear to differ remarkably 

 in general proportions from that of fontanieri. It measures: greatest length 

 from occiput to front of incisors, 228; condylobasal length, 201; zygomatic 

 breadth, 152; greatest breadth across supraorbital processes, 73; greatest length 

 of mandible, 151 ; length from back of upper molar to front of canine, 71 ; length 

 from back of lower molar to front of canine, 80. 



This leopard probably represents the race inhabiting the lowland portion 

 of southeastern China and I have provisionally referred it to F. p. variegata, 

 whose range is supposed to be "Indo-China, Java, Sumatra" (Trouessart). 

 That the leopard of the coastal region of southeastern China is different from 

 those of India and North China was long ago pointed out by Swinhoe(1870, 

 p. 628), who says, "judging from skins procured at Canton, the Chinese race is 

 of a much richer yellow colour, and has the spots larger and blacker than is 

 usually seen in skins from India." 



