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very abundant. The only specimen of the Leopard which I was enabled 

 to obtain, has been presented to the Company's Museum." 



A black variety of this, as well as of the next species, is occa- 

 sionally met with. Pennant, in his History of Quadrupeds, describes 

 and figures an individual which was brought to England by Warren 

 Hastings. 



Panthere noire, De la Mtiheric, in Journ. de Phys. XXXII I. 

 p. 45, t. 2. 



74. PEL IS PARDUS, Linn., Sijst. Nat. 12, p. 61. 



Felis pardus, Temm., Monogr. I. p. 99. Sykes, Catal. of 



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



p. 200. Muller, over de Zoogdieren van den Indischen 



Archip.p. 29 and p. 52. 

 The Panther. 



BEEBEEA BAUGH, of the Mahrattas, Col. Sykes. 

 GOBBACHA, Dukhani, Walter Elliot, Esq., Cat. Mamm. 



Madras Journ. X. p. 106. 

 MACHAN or MEONG TOOTOOL and MACHAN BATEKH, of the 



natives of Java. 



HAB. Continental India. Dukhani, Colonel Sykes. The 

 Southern Mahratta Country, W. Elliot, Esq. Java and 

 Sumatra, Dr. S. Muller. 



A. From Dukhun. Presented by Colonel Sykes. 



B. Horsfield/s Collection from Java. 



C. From Continental India. 



" This species," Colonel Sykes observes, "is so abundant that 472 

 were killed from 1825 to 1829 inclusive, in the four collectorates of 

 Dukhun. It differs from the Leopard in its smaller size, stouter make, 

 darker ground colour, and in its crowded rose rings." 



Dr. S. Muller, in mentioning the habits which distinguish the Panther 

 from the Leopard and the Tiger, states that the former is occasionally 

 found, in solitary deserts, during the day, sleeping stretched across the 

 fork of a large bough. Sir T. S. Raffles relates the same as the 

 habit of the Rimau Dahan, or Felis macroscelis. 



Walter Elliot, Esq., in his Catalogue of the Mammalia in the 

 Southern Mahratta country, indicates two varieties of Felis pardus, 

 Linn., namely, the Honega of the Canarese, and Kerkal, Canarese, 



