SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



422. 6. F. Pardus (the Panther.) Pale yellow above, 

 with six or seven lines of rose-formed dots, which form 

 clusters of five or six spots on each flank ; tail longer than 

 that of the Jaguar, with the latter part black above, white 

 underneath, having three or four white annuli on the black 

 part *. 



Pel is Pardus, Lin. 



Panthere, Cuv. Menag. du Mus, 



Icon. Cuv. Menag. du Mus.f. Buff. Hist. Nat. i. 9. tab. 1 1. 



Inhabits Northern Africa. 



423. 7. F. Leopardus (the heopard.) Fur bright yellow 

 on the upper part, white underneath, with at least ten 

 ranges of small black clusters of spots on each flank ; lower 

 part of the tail, for about one-third of its length, black 

 above, white underneath, with five or six white annuli on 

 the black part, rather smaller than the Panther. 



Leopard, Cm\ Ann. du Mus. t. 14. 148. 



Icon. Buff. i^. pi. 14. Schreb.pL 101. Shaw. Zool. Vol. 

 \.f. 2. pi. 85. 



Inhabits Central Africa, or Sunda only, according to 

 the BaroUi Oss. Foss. iv. pL 426. 



424. 8. F. Pardus Aniiquorum (Panther of Antiquity.) 

 Spots assimilated to those of the Common Panther, but the 

 ground colour entirely buff^ yellow ; spotted to end of tail, 



* As Buifon does not disting^uish the Jaguar, and has insufticiently 

 characterised the Leopard, it is difficult to distinguish the synonymy with 

 certainty ; but after a minute comparison of the figures, and of the de- 

 scriptions of Daubcnton, I think that his Panthere male, ix. jJ. 11. is 

 our Panther; that his Panthere fetnelle (ib. pi. xii. c. Schreb. pi. xcix. 

 and Shaw, Gen. Zool. i. part ii. pi. 84.) is a Jaguar ; and that his Leo- 

 pard (ib. pi. XIV. c. Schreb. pi. ci. and Shaw, pi. 85.) ia in fact our 

 Leopard ; but the character of the tails are ill expressed in these figures. 

 Cuv. Oss. Fas. t, IV, pi. 425 



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