JAGUAR LEOPARD. 
above enumerated. It certainly does a-ppear 
very much to resemble the animal m tlie Le- 
veriaii Museum., which Dr. Shaw tells us is 
called the Hunting Leopard; but we cannot 
adopt .either, as of that species, with the po- 
jsitive want of those essential chara6tcrs. 
We need not, in this place, more tlia-n men- 
tion the name of that bcauritnl Aniericaii 
animal, the Ocelot, or Mexican Cat. of Biif- 
fon: since, though it may seem to claim a not 
very distant affinity with the Asiatic and Afri- 
can Panther, Ounce, and Leopard, as well as 
the American Jaguar and Jaguarette, and has 
some spots on the body ; it is, on the whole, 
rather a striped than a spotted animal, and 
^ould lead us to notice the Tiger race, which 
■it also in some degree approximates. With 
respedl to the Jaguarette, or Black Leopard — 
though stri£lly a spotted animal, yet absurdly ^ 
called the Black Tiger by some authors — and 
as the ground and spots are both constantly 
black, it seems clearly out of the question. . 
I Perhaps, if the drawing thus noticed had 
been received by BuiTon from a less respedable 
charadler 
