THE HUNTING LEOPARD. 



The Hunting Leopard, when properly trained for the chafe of Antelopes, 

 is hood- winked, and fecured in a fmall kind of waggon, till it approaches the 

 herd ; when, being fet at liberty, it winds llowly and cautioufly along 

 the ground, occalionally flopping and concealing itfelf till it gains an 

 advantageous fituation It then darts on the unfufpe&ing animals with 

 aftoniihing agility, and generally overtakes them by the rapidity of its 

 bounds; but, if its firft efforts, confifting of five or lix furpriling leaps, 

 happen to prove ineffectual, it prudently relinquifhes the fruitlefs purfuit, 

 and, after flopping to regain its breath, readily returns to its matter. 



This fpecies of Leopard is known in India by the name of the Chittah. 



