64 THE TOWER MENAGERIE. 
animals, but exhibits, on the contrary, a peculiar crisp- 
ness which is not to be found in any other of the tribe. — 
' His ground-colour is a bright yellowish fawn above, 
and nearly pure white beneath, covered above and on 
the sides by innumerable closely approximating spots, 
from half an inch to an inch in diameter, which are 
intensely black, and do not, as in the Leopard and 
others of the spotted cats, form roses with a lighter 
centre, but are full and complete. These spots, which 
are wanting on the chest and under part of the body, 
are-larger on the back than on the head, sides, and 
limbs, where they are more closely set: they are also 
spread along the tail, forming on the greater part of its 
extent interrupted rings, which, however, become conti- 
nuous as they approach its extremity, the three or four 
last rings surrounding it completely. The tip of the 
tail is white, as is also the whole of its under surface, 
with the exception of the rings just mentioned; it is 
equally covered with long hair throughout its entire 
length, which is more than half that of the body. 'The 
outside of the ears, which are short and rounded, is 
marked by a broad black spot at the base, the tip, as 
also the inside, being whitish. The upper part of his 
head is of a deeper tinge; and he has a strongly marked 
flexuous black line, of about half an inch in breadth, 
extending from- the inner angle of the eye to the angle 
of the mouth. The extremity of the nose is black, like 
that of the dog. The mane, from which he derives his 
scientific name, is not very remarkable: it consists of 
a series of longer, crisper, and more upright hairs, which 
extend along the back of the neck and the anterior por- 
tion of the spine. 
