Felid^.— ^-MAMMALl A. Felid^. 1 1 5 
dejected and mortified air.” The Cheetah seems, 
iour of the two beautiful specimens at present contained 
tlierefore, quite capaJble of domestication. It exhibits 
in the Zoological Society’s Gardens, Regent’s Park, 
a frankness of look, and an openness of manner, totally 
cannot but have been struck with their playful freedom. 
different from the sneaking distrustfiilness of ordinary 
gentle manners, and elegant attitudes ; their habits 
cats. Any one who has carefully watched the behav- 
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entirely according with the favourable account given 
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Tlie Cheetah or Hunting Leopard (Felis jubata). 
by Mr. Bennett of a similar pair formerly preserved in 
devouring, as it does, with equal avidity, all kinds of 
the Tower menagerie. In Dr. Gray’s list this species 
cattle, horses, and other quadrupeds, monkeys, birds. 
is designated Giieparda juhata. 
fishes, and even rejhiles, having, it is said, a true 
THE JAGUAK {Fdis Onca) is a broad-chested, 
aldermanic relish for savoury turtle. Notwithstanding 
powerfully-built animal, inhabiting Central and South 
its fierceness, it is a cowardly animal, instances having 
America (fig. 36). By some it is called the “great 
been recorded where a loud shout has been sufficient tc 
panther ” or leopard. The body occasionally measures 
scare it away. The Spanish naturalist, D’Azara, gives 
nearly five feet, exclusive of the tail. The fur is beauti- 
an apt illustration of its great strength : — “ A jaguar 
fully spotted, with annulations resembling those of the 
had struck down a horse, and D’Azara gave instruc- 
common leopard, their general appearance being, in the 
tions that the latter should be drawn within musket 
language of Mr. Bennett, at first sight “the same in 
shot of a tree wherein he intended to pass the night, in 
both ; but the open roses of the leopard are scarcely 
expectation that the jaguar would return for his prey. 
more than half the size of those of the jaguar, and they 
While D’Azara was gone to prepare himself, the jaguar 
all inclose a space of one uniform colour, in which, 
returned from the opposite side of a broad and deep 
unless in some rare and accidental instances, no central 
river, seized the horse in its mouth, drew it to the 
spots exist ; while in the latter animal most of those 
water some sixty paces, swam across the river with it. 
which are aixanged along the upper surface, near the 
and drew it into a wood hard by.” Both in form and 
middle line of the back, are distinguished by one or 
colouring the Jagiiar is prone to considerable variation. 
two small black spots inclosed within their circuit. The 
one of the kinds being of a deep brownish-black hue 
middle line itself is occupied in the leopard by open 
generally, so that the dark spots are scarcely rendered 
roses, intermixed with a few black spots of small size 
visible. 
and roundish form ; that of the jaguar, on the contrary. 
THE RIMAU-DYAN {Felis macroscelis) or Gigantic 
is marked by one or two regular longitudinal lines of 
Tiger-cat of Sumatra, is a magnificent animal, and one 
broad, elongated, deep black patches, sometimes extend- 
of the handsomest of all the feline mammalia. The 
ing several inches in length, and occasionally forming 
body is about three and a half feet long, exclusive of 
an almost continuous band from between the shoulders 
the tail, which would give us some three feet more. 
to the tail. The black rings towards the tip of the 
The fur has a brownish-grey colour, and is marked 
latter are also more completely circular than in the 
with marbled, interrupted, and angular patches of a 
leopard.” Eespecting the habits of the Jaguar, its 
deep velvet-black colour. In the 1st volume of the 
ferocious and destructive character is well known ; 
Zoological Journal, Sir Stamford Raffles gives the 
