SERVAL. 
" From comparing," says BufFon, the 
Serval, with the Chat Pard or Mountain Cat 
described by the Gentlemen of the Academy, 
we discovered no other differences than the 
long spots on the back, and the annulated tail 
of the former, which were wanting in the 
latter. The spots on the back of the Serval 
are only placed nearer each other than on the 
rest of the body: but these differences/' he 
concludes, are too slight to create any su- 
spicion concerning the identity of the species of 
these two animals." 
Pennant, however, with what we apprehend 
to be superior precision, rematks that this ani~ 
mal " differs from the Mountain Cat in these 
particulars — The orbits are white ; the spots 
on the body are universally round; in it's na- 
ture it is very fierce and untameable ; it inha- 
bits the woods in the mountainous parts of 
India ; lives in trees, and scarely ever descends 
on the ground, for it breeds in them ; it leaps 
with great agility from tree to tree ; and is 
called by the natives of Malabar the Marapute, 
and by the Portuguese the Serval.'"* 
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