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THE ASIATIC SERVAL*. LE CHAT PARD. 
Fells Serval Asiatica. 
The Mimoires of the French academicians contain 
one on an Asiatic species of the felinae, which they 
name chat par d. The ground-colour of it was ferru- 
ginous, with the under part of the animal white; and 
the whole body was covered with black spots, which 
were rather long on the back, but rounder and more 
numerous on the sides and legs. It measured two 
feet six inches, and the tail eight inches. Buffon 
afterward described an animal, which he identifies 
with the chat pard above named, and to which he 
gives the name of serval. He says, it is found in 
India and Thibet. 
The specific character of the spots, being oval on 
the back, and rounder on the sides and belly, applies 
strictly to the animal figured on the opposite plate, 
which was brought from India, and lately exhibited 
at Exeter ’Change. Although, therefore, this animal 
differs considerably from that represented by Mons. 
F. Cuvier, in the great lithographic work on the 
French menagerie ; the native country of which is 
unknown, and which he identifies with the chat pard 
* Called marapute by the inhabitants of Malabar, according to 
Buffon. 
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