370 
AMERICAN SERVAL. 
birds, 8cc, This species appears to have been 
first described by the French Academicians in 
their work entitled Memoires pour seroir a VHis- 
toire des Animaua;, The specimen there described 
measured two feet and a half from the nose to 
the tail, which was eight inches long. Its shape 
thick and strong : its general colour was fox-red 
or ferruginous, with the throat, abdomen, and in- 
sides of the legs, yellowish-white : it was spotted al- 
most all over with black ; the spots being of along 
form on the back, and round on the sides, belly, 
and legs, where they were proportionally smaller 
and more numerous. The specimen described and 
figured in the Count de Buffon s Natural History 
differed only in a very few particulars, so sHght 
as to leave no doubt of the identity of the species. 
It was excessively fierce and untameable. 
AMERICAN SERVAL. 
Chat Sauvage dc la Caroline. Buff, suppl. 3. p. 226. 
Mountain Lynx. Pennant Qmdr. 1. p. 300. 
It is to this animal, and not to the preceding, 
that Mr. Pennant applies the synonym of Chat- 
Par d, and supposes it to have been the species de- 
scribed by the French academicians of the last 
century. It has (says Mr. Pennant) upright 
pointed ears, marked with two brown transveiise 
bars: colour of the head and whole upper part of 
the body reddish-brown, marked Avith long nar- 
