370 AMERICAN SERVAL. 



birds, &c. This species appears to have been 

 first described by the French Academicians in 

 their work entitled Memoir es pour seroir a VHis- 

 toire des Animaux. The specimen there described 

 measured two feet and a half from the nose to 

 the tail, which was eight inches long. Its shape 

 thick and strong : its general colour was fox-red 

 or ferruginous, with the throat, abdomen, and in- 

 sides of the legs, yellowish-white : it was spotted al- 

 most all over with black ; the spots being of a long 

 form on the back, and round on the sides, belly, 

 and legs, where they were proportionally smaller 

 and more numerous. The specimen described and 

 figured in the Count cle Buffon's Natural History 

 differed only in a very few particulars, so slight 

 as to leave no doubt of the identity of the species. 

 It was excessively fierce and untameable. 



AMERICAN SERVAL. 



Chat Sauvage dc la Caroline. Bujf. suppl. 3. p. 226. 

 Mountain Lynx. Ptnnant Quadr. i.p. 300. 



IT is to this animal, and not to the preceding, 

 that Mr. Pennant applies the synonym of Ckat- 

 Pard, and supposes it to have been the species de- 

 scribed by the French academicians of the last 

 century. It has (says Mr. Pennant) upright 

 pointed ears, marked with two brown transverse 

 bars : colour of the head and whole upper part of 

 the body reddish-brown, marked with long nar- 



