HUNTING LEOPARD. 353 
field chained and hooded, and, at the proper time, 
is loosed, when it is said to steal along the ground 
at first, concealing itself, till it gains a proper ad- 
vantage, and then to dart on tlie animal it pur- 
sues, with several repeated springs. If it hap- 
pens to miss its prey, it returns to the call of its 
master. The specimen of this animal in the Le- 
verian Museum is of a pale fulvous-yellow, with 
the cheeks, neck, and breast, white: the body 
whitish beneath; with few obscure dusky spots. 
All the upper parts are very thickly spotted with 
small and perfectly round spots, with still smaller 
ones intermixed : the spots are largest on the out- 
side of the thighs, where the smaller intermixed 
ones are scarce larger than peas, or proportionally 
less than on the other parts : the nose is black : 
from each eye is a blackish line, running down to 
the corners of the mouth: the tail is spotted like 
the body, but towards the tip are two or three ob- 
scure bands ; and the tip itself is blackish : the in- 
sides of the legs are thickly spotted. There seems 
to be no distinct appearance of a mane in this 
specimen ; neither is there the slightest appearance 
of it in Buffon's plate, which is here represented ; 
but it should be observed, that the spots, in this 
figure seem much less accurately rounded than 
those in the Leverian specimen, as well as less 
numerous in proportion. In Mr. Schreber's figure 
of this animal the mane seems extremely conspi- 
cuous. 
