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regularly and cross-wise with black. The most 

 cruel of quadrupeds and the most terrible 

 scourge of the East Indies. So great are its 

 force and swiftness that, during the march of 

 armies, it has been known to snatch a horseman 

 from his horse, and carry him off into the re- 

 cesses of the woods without the possibility of 

 rescue. 



The Jaguar or American Tiger. The great Panther of 

 Furriers. (Felis Onpa, Lin.) d'Azzara, Voy. pi. ix. 



Almost as large as the oriental tiger, and almost 

 as dangerous. A bright fawn-colour above, 

 marked along the flanks with four ranges of 

 black spots in the form of eyes, that is, with 

 rings more or less complete, with a black point 

 in the middle. White underneath, radiated 

 cross-wise with black. 



There are some individuals black, on which 

 the spots, of a still deeper hue, are visible only 

 at certain points of exposition. 



The Panther, (Felis Pardus, Lin.) The Pardalis of the 

 Ancients. Cuv. Menag. du Mus. 8vo. I. p. 212. 



Fawn-coloured above, white underneath, with 

 six or seven ranges of black spots in the form 

 of roses, that is to say, formed by an assem- 

 blage of five or six simple spots on each flank. 



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