JAGUAR LEOPAP.D. 
r-obe, thoiigh more or less deep; by the small 
ness of it's spots ; and by tlieir being disposed 
in gronpcs, as if each of them vv^ere formed by 
the union of four or five. 
Pliny, and several posterior autliors, say- 
that the robe of the Female Panther was 
v/hiter tlian that of the Male. This may be 
true of tlie Ounce ; but we have observed no 
such distin6lion in the Panthers kept at Y er 
sallies, which were drawn from the life. Henc 
if there is any difference between the Male 
and Female, it can neither be constant no 
sensible. We have, indeed, perceived shade 
more or less strong in som.e skins of tnes 
animals; but it is probable 'that this differenc 
depends more on the difference of age, or o 
climate, than on that of sex/' 
Buffon remarks, that *^ of the three am 
mals above described, under the appelkitior 
of the Panther, the Ounce, and tlie Leopar 
n,ot a single one can be referred to the anira 
which naturalists have indicated by tiie nan 
of Tardus, or Lcopardus." The former 
described bv Linnaeus, and the latter bv Bri 
