﻿FELIS PARDUS. 



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This variation in the size of the fossil, as compared with the recent Leopard, is not 

 greater than that presented by living individuals of the same species. 



The Femur. — The left femur figured (PL XXIV, fig. 5) corresponds with that of a large 

 Panther from West Africa, in the Museum of the College of Surgeons. Its proportions 

 may be gathered from the figure, and there is no necessity for a detailed description. The 

 rest of the bones are too fragmentary to be figured or described. 



The remains from the Pleiocene beds of Mont Perrier in Auvergne ascribed by 

 MM. Croizet and Jobert to the Fells antiqua are far too large 1 to have belonged to the 

 largest Leopard. Nor can any of the other fossil felines be identified with it with any 

 certainty. M. de Blainville, 2 however, believes that the Felis pardinensis, and the F. 

 Arvernensis of MM. Croizet and Jobert, are identical with the Panther. The Felis par- 

 doidei of Professor Owen, from the Red Crag, differs from the Panther in the lowness of 

 the crown of the last true molar. 



§ 3. Associated Animals. — The species with which the remains of the Panther have 

 been found in Britain, Prance, Germany, and Gibraltar, are represented in the following 

 table ; Marcel de Serres, Dr. Palconer, Mr. Busk, and Dr. Goldfuss, being the authorities 

 for those of Lunel-viel, Gibraltar, and Gailenreuth. The Ursus ferox from the last cave 

 is based on the examination of a series of teeth obtained by Sir Philip Egerton and Lord 

 Enniskillen. 



List op Species. 



Caves 



Banwell. 



Bleadon. 



Sand ford 

 Hill. 



Lunel-Viel, 



Gibraltar. 



Gailen- 

 reuth. 



JJrsus arctos, L 



U. spelceus, Gold 



U. ferox, L 



Gulo luscus, Latr 



Meles taxus, L 



Mustela putorius, L 



M. martes, L 



Lutra vulgaris, Erxl 



Cants vulpes, L 



C. lupus, L 



Hycena {spelcea, Gold.) crocuta, Zim. ... 



Felis catus, L 



F. (antiqua) pardus, L 



F. leo (var. spelcea), L 



F. pardina, L 



F. serval, Schreb 



X 

 X 



X 

 X 



X 



X 



X 



1 ' Oss. Foss. de Puy de Dome,' p. 214, 4to, 1828. ' Osteographie,' article "Felis," p. 143, 

 pi. xvi. 



2 'Osteographie,' article "Felis." 



3 'Brit. Fossil Mammals,' p. 169. 



