CATALOGUE. 45 



spot, and discovered that she had been dragged into a ravine by another 

 tiger, and half the carcass devoured. They found him close by, and 

 killed him also. 



" The Bheels in Kandeish say, that in the monsoon, when food is 

 scarce, the tiger feeds on frogs ; and an instance occurred some years 

 ago in that province of one being killed in a state of extreme emacia- 

 tion, from a porcupine's quill that had passed through his gullet, and 

 prevented his swallowing, and which had probably been planted there 

 in his attempts to make one of these animals his prey. Many super- 

 stitious ideas prevail among the natives regarding the tiger. They 

 imagine that an additional lobe is added to his liver every year ; that 

 his flesh possesses many medicinal qualities ; that his claws, arranged 

 together so as to form a circle, and hung round a child's neck, pre- 

 serve it from the effect of the evil eye ; that the whiskers constitute a 

 deadly poison, which for this reason are carefully burnt off, the instant 

 the animal is killed. Several of the lower castes eat his flesh." 



73. FELIS LEOPARDUS, Schreb., Saength. p. 387. 



Felis leopardus, Temm., Monogr. J. p. 92. Linn., Syst. 

 Nat. ed. Gmel. I. p. 77. Sykes, Cat. of Mamm. from 

 Dukhun, p. 8. Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 199. 



CHEETA, literally the painted animal, of the Mahrattaa, who 

 apply the same name to the Hunting Leopard. 



HARIMAU BINTANG, of the Malays of the peninsula of Ma- 

 lacca, Cantor. 



HAD. Many parts of Africa, according to M. Temminck. 

 India generally, Malayan peninsula ; but according to 

 Dr. S. Muller has not been found in the Indian Archi- 



A. Specimen from Dukhun. Presented by Colonel Sykes. 



M. Temminck, in his Monograph of the genus Felis, I. p. 92, states 

 in detail the characters by which the Leopard is distinguished from the 

 Panther. Colonel Sykes, who had opportunities of observing both 

 species in their native localities, gives the peculiarities of the Leopard 

 as follows : " It is a taller, longer, and slighter built animal than the 

 next species, which I consider the Panther. It differs also in more of 

 the ground colour being seen, and in the rose spots being much more 

 broken. The natives of Dukhun consider the Leopard and the Panther 

 next enumerated as distinct species. The Leopard is rare ; the Panther 



