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four or five young at a litter : she is at all times 
furious, but her rage rises to the utmost extre- 
mity when robbed of her young. She then braves 
every danger, and pursues her plunderers^ who 
are often obliged to release one in order to retard 
her motion : she stops^ takes it up, and carries it 
to the nearest cover, but instantly returns, and 
renews her pursuit, even to the very gates of 
buildings, or the edge of the sea, and when her 
hope of recovering them is lost, she expresses her 
agony by hideous howhngs, which excite terror 
wherever they reach. 
PANTHER. 
Felis Pardus. F. cauda ehngata, corpore maculis superioribus or-' 
biculatis/inferioribus virgatis, Lin. Syst. Nat, p.6i. 
C. with elongated tail, and yellow body marked with orbicular 
spots above, and lengthened ones below. 
Felis ex albo flavicans, maculis nigris in dorso orbiculatis, in 
ventre longis. Briss. Quadr. p. 194. 
Panthera, Pardus, Pardalis, Leopardus. Gesn. Quadr, p. 824. 
Panthere. Buff, g. p. i^i.pl 11, 12. 
Panther. Pennant Quadr, i. a8o. 
Next to the Tiger the Panther is the most 
conspicuous species in this genus; measuring 
about six feet and a half, and sometimes near 
seven feet from nose to tail, which is itself about 
three feet long. The colour of the Panther is a 
bright and beautiful tawny -yellow, thickly marked 
all over the upper parts of the body, shoulders, 
and thighs, with roundish black spots, disposed 
