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line always make a specific character of the Jaguar ; and 

 the Asiatic Leopard is sometimes distinguished by this 

 peculiarity, though it does not in other respects resemble 

 the American animal. When, therefore, it is said, that 

 the Panther much resembles the Jaguar, it is always to be 

 strongly suspected, that the type, whence the observations 

 are taken, is an American animal. 



We have selected two from amongst the several draw- 

 ings before us, as being most opposed to each other, and, 

 therefore, most illustrative of the differences between the 

 Leopard and Panther of naturalists, whether as species or 

 varieties. 



The specimen, named the Leopard, was at Exeter 

 'Change. Compared both with the Jaguar, and with the 

 Panther of naturalists, it was uniformly of a paler yellow- 

 colour, rather smaller, and the spots rose-formed, or con- 

 sisting of several dots, partially united into a circular 

 figure, -in some instances, and into a quadrangular, triangu- 

 lar, and other less determined forms in others ; there were 

 also, and especially on the outside of the limbs, several 

 single isolated black spots. 



The other, or Panther, is from Major Smith's drawing 

 of one of the several Felinae, called Panthers, now in the 

 Paris Museum. It is the smallest there, and the most 

 closely marked with spots. These spots make a consider- 

 able contrast with those of the other figure, the most so 

 of any of the five or six specimens of Panthers in that 

 celebrated collection. This figure, also, it will be seen, 

 approximates very nearly that of the animal next described, 

 particularly when uncoloured, and also, though less in de- 

 gree, to that of the large and small Jaguar. The differ- 

 ences which distinguish the former of these, will be ob- 

 served upon in the description of the animal ; those that 

 mark the latter have been already adverted to. 



The animal we have figured under the name, conditionally,. 



