BLACK LEOPARP. 
animal, but sometimes found in different partjS 
of South America. 
Our Black Leopard, from the East Indies, 
which is the figure annexed, we have reason 
to think, is there very uncommon. It is of a 
dusky black, sprinkled with spots of a glossy- 
black, disposed in the same form as those of 
the conimon Leopard ; but, what is very re- 
jnarkable, the hair, on being turned aside, ap- 
pears beneath of a yellowish tinge. 
In BufFon's account of the Jaguarette, it is 
described as having black hair, variegated with 
spots of a still deeper black. It is thought, by 
most naturalists, to be a black variety of the 
Jaguar, which is in almost every respecSl lik^ 
the Leopard; being of a bright yellow colour, 
about the size of BufFon's Ounce, but spotted 
more like the Leopard. 
To us it appears, that these animals are, in 
fa6t. Leopards, or animals with simple circu- 
lar spots, of the New World, as America is 
generally called by naturalists ; and that the 
Jaguarette, and Black Leopard, both scarce 
animals, 
