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lower part of the fides with breaks of the fame colour with thofe. fpots, which 
continued quite to the belly. 
It is a very nimble as well as a very fierce animal, fcarce any thing efcapes it. All 
the writers on quadrupeds have named it, but there is fome confufion in the accounts 
of the earlier authors, and fome of the later ones feem to have made two fpecies of 
the male and female. They call the male Pardus , and the female Panthera. It is 
a native of Alia and America. 
Felts cauda elongata maculis fuperioribus virgatisy in¬ 
ferior thus punElatis. ' 
The Felisy with an elongated taily with the upper fpots SjpOUHt&ttL 
virgatedy the lower pun&ated. 
This is of the bignefs of one of our mafliffs, but not of thofe of the very largeft 
kind : the head is large ; the eyes are prominent and very fierce; the ears fhort and pa¬ 
tulous, and the mouth large, and furnifhed with a terrible apparatus of teeth : the 
neck is fhort and thick ; the body is fhort, rounded, and bulky : the legs are robuff, 
and the claws very fharp and very long. 
The ground colour of the back and fides is of a dufky brown ; the belly and part 
of the legs, as alio part of the face, is white: the variegations are black, and they 
run along the back and upper part of the fides, in a longitudinal, not in a tranfverfe, 
direction : the lower part of the fides, and the belly, inflead of thefe flreaks, have 
only fmall fpots of black ; the tail is long, and variegated. 
This is a native of Alia and Africa, and fome parts alfo of America. Authors 
have defcribed it under the name of Catus Pardus ; and fome have confounded it with 
the leopard. 
Felis cauda elongatay aurihus penicilli-formibus . 
The long-tailed Felhy with pencilled ears . 
This is a fingular and a very beautiful animal; it is of the fize of a large dog, but 
the limbs are much flronger, and more bulky : the head is large ; the ears are very 
broad at their bafe, and very open, but they terminate in a point at the top, and are 
each ornamented there with a pencil of hairs of a moderate length, thick, firm, and 
coal black : the neck is fhort and thick ; the bread: is broad; the body is corpulent 
and fhort; the tail is long and variegated : the legs are rebuff, but not fo remarkably 
thick as in fome of the other beads of prey 5 the claws are very long, fharp, and 
hooked. 
The ground colour is a pale brown, with a mixture of tawny ; the variegations are 
black : they are difpofed in irregular fpots, large and oblong on the upper part of the 
animal, and fmaller and rounded on the under. 
This is a native of fome parts of Europe, and has been, by fome writers, con¬ 
founded with the Cat-a-mountain ; but the pencilled ears, in which it refembles the 
lynx, diffidently didinguifh it. 
Felis cauda truncata y corpore rufefeente maculato • 
The truncated-tailed Felisy with the body brown STfj t JLptlJL 
and fpotted with black . 
This is a large and robufl animal, but it is lefs than the lion : the head 
is large, but not very long; the forehead is flat; the eyes are large and fierce; the 
ears are very large and open, but they terminate in a point at the top, and are there 
ornamented 
