THE STORY OF THE LEOPARD. 
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animal (in common with the hunting-leopard) is known to the natives of 
India as the chita, meaning spotted; the leopard, on account of its larger 
size, being often distinguished as the chita-bagh, or spotted tiger. I have 
made a careful study of the two animals, and have concluded that they are 
* of the same species. They are as close kin as are the Jersey and Shorthorn 
or Durham cows. 
The differences in the size of individual leopards is so great that while 
in the smallest examples the total length of the head, body and tail does not 
exceed five feet, in the largest it reaches to as much as eight feet. In a large 
male, of which the total length was seven feet eleven inches, the head and 
body measured four feet nine inches, and the tail three feet two inches. 
The leopard is one of the three larger cats which are common to India 
and Africa, the other two' being the lion and the hunting-leopard. The 
distribution of the leopard is, however, more extensive than that of the 
lion, embracing nearly the whole of Asia, from Persia to Japan, but not 
extending as far north as Siberia. 
A PERSIAN LEOPARD AND ITS HABITS, 
