i8 STUDIES IN THE EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS 



tions of those on the flank of the Jaguar ; and Fig. 4 shows many 

 intermediate forms between the Jaguar rosettes enclosing specks 

 and the solid rosettes or spots of the abdominal region. 



In one particular Leopard skin l I noticed a very curious varia- 

 tion, shown in Fig. 8. It appeared 



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rpv> 0) x ^\ as if the enclosed specks had been 



o a a p extruded from the rosette ring. 



\)> o r^ In some regions it is not always 



easy to make out whether the 

 FIG. s. Occasional variants of jaguar rosettes are a coalescence or a dis- 



and Leopard rosettes. . . _ 



sociation ol spots/ 



Fig. 9 shows rosettes from the scapular regions of a Jaguar 

 skin. Some look like a consolidation and others like a dissocia- 



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FIG. 9. Various forms of rosettes from the scapular regions of a Jaguar skin. 



tion of spots. The groups shown in Fig. 59 (Nos. 30-32) are 

 obviously a dissociation of the ring-spots. 



The Jaguar in the Science and Art Museum, Edinburgh, has 

 the spaces enclosed by the rosettes of the whole skin of a deeper 

 shade of fawn than the general ground colour ; and on the hind-legs 



1 Shown to me at Messrs. Back and Co.'s. 



2 Two Leopards, described by M. A, Milne Edwards, ' were remarkable for the 

 circumstance that the markings on the flanks were more like rings than rosettes' (p. 390, 

 Roy. Nat. Hist. vol. i.). 



