* CAT. 
ried with fmall black fpots : tail fpotted with fmalf 
fpots near its bafe , with larger near the end, which 
is black. 
An animal, fuppofed to be the female*, was 
fhewen two years ago in London : its ground color 
was cinereous •, paleft on the legs and belly : irides 
hazel: tip of the nofe red : ears fhort, and rounded, 
black on the out-fide, grey within : from the nofe 
to the eye, on each fide, a black line; above and 
beneath each eye a white one : fides of the mouth 
white, marked with four rows of fmall black fpots: 
from the hind part of the head, to the back and 
lhoulders, ran feme long, narrow, hollow ftripes : 
along the top of the back two rows of oval black 
fpots: the marks on the fides long, hollow, and ir¬ 
regular, extending from fhoulders to thighs : fhoul- 
ders both barred and fpotted: legs and belly only 
fpotted; tail not fo long as the body; had large 
fpots above, fmall beneath. 
It was ilrongly made : and above four times the 
fize of a large cat. 
Inhabits Mexico , the neighborhood of Carthagena , 
and Brqfil: lives in the mountains: is very voraci¬ 
ous ; but fearfuil of mankind: preys on young 
calves**, and different forts of game : lurks amidft 
the leaves of trees , and fometimes will extend itfelf 
* The defeription of that which M. de Buff on allures us is the 
male, is taken from a drawing. This I examined at one of Mr. 
Brooks s exhibitions, and found it the fame with the animal deferibed 
by Hernandez. M. de Buffon fuppofes the mgle to be the animal de¬ 
feribed by that author under the title of 'Tigris Mexicana, p. 498. 
but whoever examines that defeription will be of opinion it is of a 
fpecies very nearly agreeing with the European Panther. 
** D ampler 3 c voy. IX. 62. 
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