THE LEOPARD. 



Generic Characters. 

 Six cutting and two canine teeth in each jaw. 

 Five toes on the fore-feet; four on thofe behind. 



Claws hooked, iharp, and lodged in a Iheath, capable of being extended or 



drawn in at pleafure. 

 Head round, vifage Ihort, tongue rough. 



Synonims. 

 Unica, CaiiOpufc. 42. Gefner Quad. 825. 

 Le Leopard, de Bujfon, ix. 151. tab. xiv. 

 Leopard, Pennant Syn. Quad. 123. 



THE Leopard emulates the Tiger in the elegance of his form, and the 

 beautiful marking with which his fkin is adorned ; the colour of his hair is a 

 lively yellow, he is ornamented on the back and fides with fmall black fpots, 

 which are difpofed in circles not far diftant from each other ; his face and 

 legs are marked with fingle black fpots; the hairs on the breaft and belly are 

 longer than thofe on the reft of the body, and they are of a whitifh colour ; 

 the tail is yellow, and adorned with oblong black marks; the length of the 

 body is four feet from the nofe to the infertion of the tail, which is two feet 

 and a half. This animal feems to be fubjecl: to greater variety of colour, than 

 is ufually obferved in wild creatures; indeed it is feldom that two of them 

 are feen exactly alike. 



The general appearance of the Leopard is fierce, his eye is reftlefs, and his 

 countenance cruel ; his motions are Ihort and precipitate ; he attacks and 

 devours every animal he meets, fparing neither man nor beall; and when thofe 



