HUNTING LEOPARD. 
On comparing these several accounts, nu- 
merous observations suggest themselves: nor, 
had we leisure, and felt a necessity for the in- 
vestigation, should we find it difficult to point 
out obje6lions, and even incongruities, in all of 
them. In brief, however, we conceive Buffon's 
Guepard to be Pennant's Hunti-ng Leopard ; . 
notwithstanding the inferior length of the tail, 
which seems the chief difference. He, how- 
ever, appears to have been v/holly unacquainted 
with the quality which has obtained this ani- 
mal it's English name of distinction ; though 
he obviously characterizes the species, as con- 
stantly having a mane, and long hair on the 
belly. As neither of these chara6lers by any 
means exist in Mr. CoUinson's figure, copied^ 
by Dr. Shaw from BufFon ; and, as the ani- 
mal in the Leverian Museum also wants them ; 
"vve should be much at a loss to conceive, how 
Pennant could consider them as the Hunting 
Leopard, or Guepard, which BufFon himself 
never suspe6led — -and still more, how Dr. Shaw 
could not only embrace the same error, but 
augment it by the introdusStion of a wrong 
figure — were we not abundantly convinced, 
that neither talents nor diligence can at all 
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