THE HUNTING LEOPARD. 
I'ecuii 
le 
animal difFerin^ from the Indian in the 
arity of a slight, thin, hog- shaped mane 
Its neck, the comparative shortness of 
-gs, and the small, black, round spots 
h which its hide is covered. The Indian 
®6tah, on the contrary, has longer legs and 
and the ground of its skin is of a brighter 
^ ow ; it has no appearance whatever of a 
; and its whole aspect has been de- 
/bed to be “more canine” than its African 
''Wive. 
It is distressing,” says Johnson, in his 
^®ld Sports of India,’ “ to see these animals 
^h deer. They are let out in chains, with 
over their eyes, and sometimes carried 
^ m carts ; and when antelopes or other 
^*’0 seen in a plain, should any of them 
is i^^P^’^^ted from the rest, the cheetah’s head 
q /"^Oght to face it ; the blinds are removed, 
the chain taken off. He immediately 
^tiehes and creeps along, with his belly 
