JAGUAR LEOPARD. 
of a bright tawny colour. The top of the 
back is marked with long stripes of black; 
and the sides with irregular oblong spots open 
in the middle, which is the ground colour of 
the hair. The thighs and legs are marked 
with full black spots. The breast and belly 
are whitish; and the tail is not so long as the 
body. The upper part is a deep tawnv, 
marked irregularly with large black spots, the 
lower part wnth smaller spots. It grows to 
the size of a Vv^ olf, and even larger." 
In neither of these accounts, however, 
can we trace sufEcient simiiitode between the 
figure which we have copied frcm BaiTon, 
under the appellaEion of the Jaguar Leopard, 
to convince us that it is any species of the 
American animal. It bears, we conceive, a 
nearer aSnity to the Panther;, but, perhaps, if 
we were not told by Bufion, ihat the animal, 
which he calls the Guepnrcl, and which other 
naturalists have denominated the Hui^tir.g Leo- 
pard, has constantly, amidst all it's varieties, 
long hair on the belly, and a mane on the 
neck, ws should he inclined to consider it as 
of that species, rather than of anv cf these 
