68 THE TOWER MENAGERIE. 
which its skin was distinguished in the commerce with 
Senegal, but evidently without suspecting its identity 
with the Asiatic animal, the trained habits of which, 
misled probably by the authority of Tavernier, he erro- 
neously attributed to his imaginary Ounce. Subsequent 
French zoologists had rectified this error, and it was 
generally believed that the tamed Leopard of Bernier, 
the Youze, the Guépard, and ‘Tavernier’s Ounce, were 
one and the same animal; but it was not until a year or 
two ago that the possession of a living specimen, brought 
from Senegal, in the Menagerie of the Jardin du Roi, 
enabled M. F. Cuvier to ascertain its characters with 
precision. The comparison of this African specimen 
with the skins sent from India, and with the notes and 
drawings made in that country by M. Duvaucel, to 
whom we are indebted for a vast deal of interesting 
information relative to the zoology of the East of Asia, 
at once put an end to all doubts of the identity of the 
two animals. 
Several individuals have been brought alive to this 
country at various times; but, notwithstanding the op- 
portunities thus afforded, it does not appear that English 
naturalists have paid any particular attention to the 
study of their character and habits. In all probability 
the earliest that arrived in Europe was one which was 
brought from India by Lord Pigot, and which was 
figured by Pennant under the name of the Hunting 
Leopard. ‘Three others, found at the capture of Seringa- 
patam among the rest of the state paraphernalia of the 
fallen Sultan, came into the possession of General, after- 
wards Lord, Harris, who, on his return to England, 
presented them to his late Majesty, by whose command 
