1 8 STUDIES IN THE EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS 



tions of those on "Ca.^ flank of the Jaguar ; and Fig. 4 shows many 

 intermediate forms between the Jaguar rosettes enclosing specks 

 and the solid rosettes or spots of the abdominal region. 



In one particular Leopard skin ^ I noticed a very curious varia- 

 tion, shown in Fig. 8. It appeared 

 — ''^ as if the enclosed specks had been 

 (3 ^ ^ ' „ ^ extruded from the rosette ring. 



\> c^:^ I" some regions it is not always 



'-* easy to make out whether the 



Fig. 8.— Occasional variants of Jaguar rosettes are a coalescencc or a dis- 



and Leopard rosettes. . . ^ „ 



sociation of spots.'' 

 Fig. 9 shows rosettes from the scapular regions of a Jaguar 

 skin. Some look like a consolidation and others like a dissocia- 



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Fig. 9.— Various forms of rosettes from the scapular regions of a Jaguar skin. 



tion of spots. The groups shown in Fig. 59 (Nos. 30-32) are 

 obviously a dissociation of the ring-spots. 



The Jaguar in the Science and Art Museum, Edinburgh, has 

 the spaces enclosed by the rosettes of the whole skin of a deeper 

 shade of fawn than the general ground colour ; and on the hind-legs 



^ Shown to me at Messrs. Back and Co.'s. 



2 Two Leopards, described by M. A. Milne Edwards, ' were remarkable for the 

 circumstance that the markings on the flanks were more like rings than rosettes' (p. 390, 

 /ioj/. Nat. Hist. vol. i. ). 



