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India by the late Mr. Devis, we are strongly inclined to 

 think that there are two distinct species of the Canine 

 Cats, agreeing in general description, particularly in the 

 want of the retractile power of the claws, the one with a 

 mane and the other without ; the former proper to Africa, 

 and the latter to India. The Indian or maneless species 

 appears also to us to be taller, and to have a longer neck, 

 smaller head, and shorter muzzle than the other. 



The Hunting Leopard, it is said, is conveyed in a car- 

 riage, or on a pad behind the saddle of a horseman, with a 

 hood over the eyes, to the field, and when the game, Ante- 

 lopes, fyc, is started, the hood is taken off, and it is sent 

 out in pursuit. It follows by leaps or bounds, and if un- 

 successful in taking its prey after a few efforts, declines 

 the pursuit, and returns to its keeper. 



Specimens of large black FelinaB have been frequently 

 quoted as distinct species, as the Felis Chalybeata of Her- 

 man, which M. F. Cuvier pronounces decidedly to be the 

 common Panther or Leopard badly coloured ; the Felis 

 Melas of Peron, said by the Baron to be a Black Leopard ; 

 the Jaguarate of d'Azara, the Black Cougouar of Pen- 

 nant, <§c. Major Smith has a drawing he refers to this 

 last species ; the form of the animal is that of the Cou- 

 gouar ; the cheeks to the ears, the throat, and belly, are 

 white, the rest of the animal black. " There is," says the 

 Major, " a Black Tiger in the mountains of Chitagong 

 pretty common, probably the same species as that brought 

 to this country by Mr. Hastings ; and there is also an un- 

 described Panther, of considerable size and of a dark co- 

 lour, with very numerous black rose and conglomerate 

 spots, at Erlangen." 



We rather apprehend that most of the known Felinse are 

 apt to vary to a uniform black, and we have drawings which 

 may be attributed to the Black Jaguar and the Black Leopard. 



But it may be proper not to pass over a specimen which 



