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They are faid to roar like a lion ; but thofe I have 
feen in captivity, emitted only a furly growl, 
" Vana et Pardtis ? Fhnii> lib. viif. Felis Pardus. F. cauda elongate* 
Ro * 7 * corpore maculis fuperioribus or- 
? Oppian Cv biculatis; inferioribus virgatis. : 
neg. lib. HI. 1 . 6 3. ^in.M. 61 *. Brijjbnquad. 198. 
Panthera, Pardus, Pardalis, Leo- La rantnere de Bujfon, ix. 151. j 
pardus Gefner quad. 824. Rail jyn. xx. XU* 
quad. 166, Klein, quad . 77. 
C. with fhort fmooth hair, of a bright tawny color: 
the back, Tides, and flanks elegantly marked with 
black fpots, difpofed in circles from four to five in 
each, with a Angle black ipot in the centre of each: 
On tne face and legs Angle fpots only: on the top of 
the back is a row of oblong fpots ; the Joilgeft next 
the tail: the cheft and belly white; the flrft marked 
with tranfverfe dufky ftripes : the belly and tail with 
large irregular black fpots : ears fhort and pointed : 
end of the nofe brown : limbs very ftrong : the fldn 
of one I meafured, was, from the end of the nofe 
to the origin of the tail. Ax feet ten inches; the tail 
near three. 
Inhabits Africa , from Barbary to the remotefl parts 
of Guinea This fpecies is next in Aze to the tiger; 
next to it in cruelty, and in its general enmity to the 
animal creation: it is to Africa what the former is to 
Afia , with this alleviation, that it prefers the flefh of 
brutes to that of mankind; but when prefled with hun- 
* A defcription that does not fuit any known animal of this 
•'genus. . 
f Sba-Tv s "travels. 244. des Marchais. I. 204. the laft miftakenly 
mils them Tigers. 
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