GUEPAIiDID^. 39 



Fam. 2. GUEPARDID.^. 



Head short, subglobular ; face very short. Neck slightly maned. 

 Legs elongate, slender, subequal. Tail elongate. Ears rounded. 

 Pupil round ? SkuU — face very short, convex ; the processes of the 

 frontals and intermaxillse very, short, not separating the nasals from 

 the maxillse ; the flesh-tooth of the upper jaw compressed, -without 

 any lobe, but with only a very slightly marked keel on the front 

 part of the inner side ; the front upper false grinder distinct, small ; 

 orbits incomplete, moderate. Tubercular grinders one on each side 

 of the upper jaw. * 



The form of the flesh-tooth of the Hunting Leopard (Oueparda) 

 at once separates it from all the Cats as distinctly as its long 

 slender legs and round face. The flesh-tooth df the upper jaw, 

 instead of being stout and having a more or less large but always 

 distinctly marked prominence with a conical crown on the front of 

 the inner edge, as is common to the skulls of all the Cats and 

 Lynxes, in the Oueparda, on the contrary, is thin, compressed lon- 

 gitudinally, and has only a very slightly raised scarcely visible keeled 

 ridge on that part. This process is represented as rather more pro- 

 minent in M. de Blainville's figure of the skull (Osteographie, Felis, 

 t. 9) than it is in the specimens in the British Museum. 



GuepardinsB, Cfray, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 277. 

 Abnormal Cat, Grai/, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 277. 



GUBPARDA. 



Gueparda, Grmj, 1840 ; P. Z. S. 1867, p. 277. 

 Cynselurus, Wagner. 



Gueparda guttata. B.M. 



Felis guttata, Herm. ; Blainv. Osteogr. Felis, t. 4 (skeleton), t. 9 



(skull). 

 Felis jubata, Schreb. 

 Felis venatica, A. Smith. 

 Felis Fearonis, A. Smith. 

 Cynselurus Soemmeringii, JRUppell. 

 Junior. Gueparda guttata, Gray, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 396, t. 24. 



Hah. Africa and Asia ; Persia ; Cape of Good Hope. 



The young Hunting Leopard (Oueparda guttata) I do not recol- 

 lect to have seen described. It is covered with long soft hair, of a 

 dark blackish-brown colour, on the limbs, sides, and beneath, and 

 very obscurely spotted ; the head, back of the neck, the back, and 



