FELIS LEOPARDUS. 45 



very fond of having her back stroaked : she immediately raises her rump 

 whenever anything touches her back. 



The Leopard \_Felis Leopardus, Linn.] \ 



The tongue, fauces, pharynx, larynx, trachea, lungs, heart, and 

 oesophagus are exactly similar to those in the Hon ; only that the os 

 hyoides is rather farther from the thyroid cartilage. There is a [serous] 

 cavity on the fore-part of the oesophagus, as in the otter, which is made 

 by the edges of the lungs adhering by a thin membrane to the oesophagus 

 laterally, and also by their membranes to the pericardium and the ante- 

 rior part of the oesophagus. 



The stomach is almost parallel with the body, and then makes a quick 

 turn up, as in the Hon. It has two orifices, which are much nearer one 

 another than in the human ; but the great arch is much more convex, 

 and the great end is not so sharp. Its vessels do not pass into it at its 

 small curve, but go on a good way on its surface, as far as they dip 

 into its coats. 



The duodenum passes on to the left, in every other respect like the 

 lion's ; for it-passes down the right side, and at the attachment where 

 it did not pass to the left, it becomes looser, and throws itself into con- 

 volutions : the turns of the jejunum become more towards the right and 

 downwards, just in the direction of the human jejunum : the ileum 

 passes up on the right side of the mesentery, and dips into the csecum 

 on the right side, which was just like the lion's in shape, and about 

 1| inch long. 



The colon passes a little way up towards the root of the mesentery, 

 having a mesocolon through its whole length to the rectum ; and then 

 makes a turn to the left side across the root of the mesentery down to 

 the pelvis. I could easily turn the intestines so as to make the duo- 

 denum pass to the left or right at pleasure, and I could easily turn the 

 csecum to make it pass from the right to the left. The length of the 

 small intestines is twice the length of the animal, measuring from the 

 head to the tip of the tail : the great intestine is about one-third the 

 length of the animal. 



The pancreas does not adhere to the neighbouring parts as in the 

 human, but is rather in the mesoduodenum or in the epiploon. But 

 the pancreas does not he flat within the epiploon, but is only attached 

 by one edge, viz. the upper, and at the small end of the pancreas it is a 

 little way from the epiploon : so that there is a doubling passing along 



[Hunter preserved the skulls of two leopards, Nos. 4542 and 4543, Osteol. Series.] 



