SERVAL. 
** and seizes birds, which constitute his chief 
** nourishment. He leaps from tree to tree 
" as nimbly as a Monkey ; and with such 
*' address and agility, that he runs through 
a considerable space in an instant, and may 
*' be said only to appear and disappear. He 
" is extremely fierce; and yet he flies the 
*' aspeft of man, unless when provoked, and 
" particularly when his dwelling is injured : 
he then becomes furious; darts on the of- 
*' fender; and tears, nearly in the same man~ 
ner as the Panther." 
" Neither captivity," pursues BuiFon, nor 
good or bad treatment, can soften the ferocity 
of this animal. The one which we saw at 
the Menagerie was always prepaied to dart on 
those who approached him ; and we were 
obliged to draw and describe him through the 
grate of his apartment. He was fed with 
flesh, like the Panthers and Leopards. 
** This Serval, or Maraputa of Malabar and 
India, appeared to be the same animal with 
the Tiger Cat of Senegal and the Cape of 
Good Hope; which, according to tlie tes- 
timony 
