BLACK LEOPARD. 
rate, regions of the north. They could never^ 
therefore, BufFon adds, have found a passage 
to the New World by any northern land ; and 
the American animals of this kind, he savs, 
ought not to be confounded with those of 
Africa and Asia, as has been erroneously 
done by the generality of nomenclators. 
Leopards, in general, delight in thick fo- 
rests, and often frequent the borders of rivers, 
and the environs of solitary habitations j where 
animals, either wild or tame, are their prey. 
They easily climb trees, in pursuit of wild 
cats or other animals ; but they seldom attack 
mankind. 
Notwithstanding what BufFon has remarked, 
by way of censure, on those who class toge- 
ther the Panther, the Ounce, or the Leopard, 
with similar animals of the New World, wc 
itrongly incline to consider, as the same spe- 
cies, our Black Leopard, brought from Ben- 
gal, and deposited in the Tower of London ; 
5ind the animal which BufFon has described 
under the came of the Jaguarette, a very rare 
