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field chained and hooded, and, at the proper time, 

 is loosed, when it is said to steal along the ground 

 at first, concealing itself, till it gains a proper ad- 

 vantage, and then to dart on the animal it pur- 

 sues, with several repeated springs. If it hap- 

 pens to miss its prey, it returns to the call of its 

 master. The specimen of this animal in the Le- 

 verian Museum is of a pale fulvous-yellow, with 

 the cheeks, neck, and breast, white: the body 

 whitish beneath ; with few obscure dusky spots. 

 All the upper parts are very thickly spotted with 

 small and perfectly round spots, with still smaller 

 ones intermixed : the spots are largest on the out- 

 side of the thighs, where the smaller intermixed 

 ones are scarce larger than peas, or proportionally 

 less than on the other parts: the nose is black: 

 from each eye is a blackish line, running down to 

 the corners of the mouth: the tail is spotted like 

 the body, but towards the tip are two or three ob- 

 scure bands; and the tip itself is blackish: the in- 

 sides of the legs are thickly spotted. There seems 

 to be no distinct appearance of a mane in this 

 specimen ; neither is there the slightest appearance 

 of it in Buffon's plate, which is here represented ; 

 but it should be observed, that the spots in this 

 figure seem much less accurately rounded than 

 those in the Leverian specimen, as well as less 

 numerous in proportion. In Mr. Schreber's figure 

 of this animal the mane seems extremely conspi- 

 cuous. 



