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fewer ; but differing more especially in having tlie tail 

 decidedly annulated with black rings, while those of all 

 the panthers are spotted : the body is described as 

 whitish ; while yellow or fawn-colour is the universal 

 tint both of the panthers and leopards. 



The Serval. 



Fells Serval, Gmelin, Cuvier. Chat-Pard, PerrauU. 



As the serval is one of the very few species belong- 

 ing to the group of ocelots which has yet been dis- 

 covered in Africa, we deem a slight notice of it will not 

 be unacceptable. It is the Chat-Pard of the French, and 

 the tiger-cat of the English furriers ; and M. Cuvier 

 incidentally mentions that hundreds of its skins are im- 

 ported from Southern Africa. Strange ! that, of an 

 animal so common, not the least information exists of 

 its habits or manners. 



The size of the serval ranks it with the middle-sized 

 species, — being about two feet and a half long, without 

 the t^l, which is nine or ten inches. The ground 

 colour of the fur is bright yellow, or fulvous, more or 

 less inclined to grey, and yellowish round the tips ; the 

 under parts are whitish : the bands and spots are larger 

 or smaller, and more oi less numerous, in different in- 

 dividuals. 



The Linked Ocelot. 

 Fells catenata, H. Smith. Griff. Cuv. Syn. p. 168. {Fig. 19.) 



Major Smith was the first naturalist who made us 



acquainted with this 

 very elegant ocelot, 

 which had probably 

 been in some of our 

 travelling menageries 

 unknown to science, 

 and subsequently 

 found its way into 

 Bullock's INluseum, where this acute observer detected 



