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four or five young at a litter : she is at all times 

 furious, but her rage rises to the utmost extre- 

 mity when robbed of her young. She then braves 

 every danger, and pursues her plunderers, who 

 are often- obliged to release one in order to retard 

 her motion : she stops, takes it up, and carries it 

 to the nearest cover, but instantly returns, and 

 renews her pursuit, even to the very gates of 

 buildings, or the edge of the sea, and when her 

 hope of recovering them is lost, she expresses her 

 agony by hideous howlings, which excite terror 

 wherever they reach. 



PANTHER. 



Felis Pardus. F. cauda elongata, corpore maculis supcrioribus or- 

 biculat'isjinferioribus virgatis. lAn. Syst. Nat. p.6i. 



C. with elongated tail, and yellow body marked with orbicular 

 spots above, and lengthened ones below. 



Felis ex albo flavicans, maculis nigris in dorso orbiculatis, in 

 ventre longis. Briss. Quadr, p. 194. 



Panthera, Pardus, Pardalis, Leopardus. Gesn. Quadr. p. 824. 



Panthere. Buff", 9. p. i$i.pl. n, 12. 



Panther. Pennant Quadr. i. 280. 



NEXT to the Tiger the Panther is the most 

 conspicuous species in this genus; measuring 

 about six feet and a half, and sometimes near 

 seven feet from nose to tail, which is itself about 

 three feet long. The colour of the Panther is a 

 bright and beautiful tawny-yellow, thickly marked 

 all over the upper parts of the body, shoulders, 

 and thighs, with roundish black spots, disposed 



