CARNARLA. 415 
F. leopardus, L. (The Leopard.) From Africa; similar to 
the Panther, but has ten rows of smaller spots.(1) 
These two species are smaller than the Jaguar. Travellers 
and furriers designate them indiscriminately by the names of 
Leopard, Panther, African Tiger, &c.(2) 
There is a third, peculiar to the distant parts of the East In- 
dies, that is a little lower; tail equal in length to the body and 
head; spots smaller and more numerous; the F’, chalybeata, 
Herm.; Schreb. CI.(3) 
F. discolor, L.; Buff. VII, xix. (The Couguar or Puma.) 
Red, with small spots of a slightly deeper red which are not 
easily perceived. From both Americas, where it preys on 
Sheep, Deer, &c.(4) 
Among the inferior species, we should distinguish the Lynxes, 
which are remarkable for the pencils of hair which ornament 
their ears. 
Four or five different kinds of them are known in commerce 
by the name of Loups Cerviers, which have long been con- 
founded by naturalists, (Felis lynx, L.) and whose specific 
limits are even not yet perhaps: well ascertained. They all 
have a very short tail, and a skin more or less spotted. 
The most beautiful, which are as large as a Wolf—F. cervaria, 
Temm., come from Asia by the way of Russia, and have a 
slightly reddish-grey fur, finely spotted with black. 
Others from Canada and the north of Sweden—F. borealis, 
(1) The same naturalist considers our Leopard as a variety of our Panther, and 
confounds them under his Felis leopardus. 
(2) Buffon has mistaken the Jaguar, which he took for the Panther of the eas- 
tern continent, and has not well distinguished the Panther and the Leopard, and 
for this reason we cannot positively quote his pl. xi, xii, xiii and xiv of Vol. VIII. 
(3) It isto this species that Temminck affixes the name of Panther, because he 
thinks Linnzus alluded to it, when speaking of his Felis pardus in the ‘‘ cauda 
elongata.” There is one thing very certain, and that is, that the Panther, so well 
known to the ancients, and which was so often produced at the Roman games, 
could not possibly have been an animal from the extreme parts of oriental Asia. 
The Once of Buff. IX, pl. xiii, (Felis uncia, Gm.) differs from the Panthers and 
Leopards by the inequality of the spots, which are more irregularly distributed, 
and partly crenate or annulated, &c. It appears to be found in Persia. We only 
know it by the figure of Buffon, and that which Mr Hamilton Smith has inserted 
_ inthe work of Griffith, taken from a specimen that was living in London. 
(4) That this animal, our common Panther, does not always confine itself to 
Sheep, &c., is well known, and has lately been proved, January 1830, by an un- 
provoked attack upon an unfortunate woman in Pennsylvania. The ferocious 
_ brute seized upon her as she was passing along the road, and killed her in an 
instant. See Griff. part V, p. 438. Am. Ed. 
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