BLACK LEOPARD. 
. i HE Black Leopard is an animal which ap- 
pears to be very little known by naturalists ; 
and was, perhaps, never seen in Europe, till 
the subje6l from which our pnint is copied was 
brought over to England, from Bengal, by 
Warren Hastings^ Esq. as a present to his 
Majesty. 
Naturalists, indeed, seem not a little at a 
■ loss to distinguish between Leopards,, stridliy 
$0 called, and several other animals. 
The Panther, the Ounce, and the Leopard, 
, BufFon remarks, which are all animals of 
I Asia and Africa, have not only been mistaken 
by naturalists for each other, but have been 
confounded with certain animals of the same 
kind found in America* 
The Large Panther, which BufFon calls 
simply the Panther, is the animal, he asserts, 
which the Greeks distinguished by the name 
of Pardulis ; the ancient Latins, first by th;it 
of 
