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FELIS PARDUS, Lion. Syst. Nat. (1766) vol. i. p. 61. sp. 3— Erxl. Syst. Rfegn. Anim. (1777) p. 505. sp. 3.—Schreb. Säugeth. (1778) Th. iii.
p. 384, tab. xcix.—Gmel. S y s t Nat. (1 7 8 8 ) vol. i. pt. l , rp. 77. sp. 3.—Fisch. Zoogn. (1814) p. 219. sp. 3, p. 221. sp. 3. var. y.—
Desm., Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. (1816). p. 100.—Id. Mammal. (1820) p. 220. no. 339.—Cuv. Ossem. Foss. (1825) vol. iv. p. 426.—
Griff. Anim. Kingd. (1827) p. 465, pl.—Temm. Mon. Mamm. (1827) vol. i. p. 99.—Less. Man. Mamm. (1827) p. 182. sp. 483.—Hemp.
& Ehrenb. Symb. Phys. (1828).—Fisch. Syn. Mamm. (1829) p. 200. sp. 6.—Swains. Anim. Menag. (1838) p. 113.—Horsf. Cat.
Mamm. Mus. E.-Ind. Co. (1851) p. 46. sp. 74.—Locke, Cat. Mamm. d’Algßr. (1858) p. 7. sp. 12.—Kirk, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1864) p . 653.
—Jerd. Mamm. Ind. (1867) p. 97.—Blyth, Cat. Mamm. & Birds Burma, Joum. Asiat; Söc. Beng. (1 8 7 5 ) p. 27. sp. 53.
FELIS LEOPARDUS, Erxleb. Syst. Rfcgn. Anim. (17 7 7 ) p. 509. sp. 5.—Gmel. Syst. Nat. (17 8 8 ) yql: i. pt. 1, p. 77. sp. 10.—Schreb. Säugeth.
(1788) Th. iii. p. 387. tab. ci.—Desm. Nouv. Diet. H is t N a t (1816) p. 101.—F. Cuv. Hist. Nat. Mamm. (1820) pl. 123.—Desm.
Mammal. (1820) p. 221. no. 340, pl. 93. fig. 1.—Griff. Anim. King. (1827) p. 459, pl.—Less. Man. Mamm. (1827) p. 182.
sp. 484.—Temm. Mon. Mamm. (1827) vol. i. p. 92.—Fisch. Syn. Mamm. (1829) p. 199. sp. 5.—Vig. Mem. Raffles (1830) p. 636.—Gard.
& Menag. Zool. Soc. (1831) p. 87.—Smuts, Dissert. Zool. (1832) p. 27.—Swains. Anim. Menag. (1838) p. 111.—Harris, S. Africa,
(1838) 8vo, App. p. 3 7 2—Id. Game & Wild Anim. S. Afr. (1840) pl. xxviii. sp. 1.—Less. Nouv. Tab. Regn. Anim. (1842) p. 51.
sp. 516.—Horsf. Cat. Mamm. M u s.jjp ln d . Co. (18 5 1 ) p. 45. sp. 73.—Bartl. Proc. Zool. Soc. (1861) p. 140.—Tristr. Proc. Zool. Soc.
(1866) p. 92.—Jerd. Mamm. Ind; (18 6 7 ) p. 99.—Sclat. Proc. Zool. Soc. (1868) p. 6 2 4—Busk, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1874) p. 147.
PANTHER, Penn. Hist. Quad. (1793) p. 281.
THE LEOPARD, Penn. Hist. Quad. (17 9 3 ) p. 282.
FELIS PANTHERA, Pall. Zoog. Rosso-Asiat. (18 1 1 ) vol. i. p. 19.
FELIS MELAS, Less. Mon. Mamm. (1827) p. 188. sp. 501.—Vig. Mem. Raffl. (1830) p. 637.—Horsf. Cat. Mamm. Mus. E.-Ind. Co. (1851)
p. 47. sp. 75.
FELIS ANTIQUORUM, Fisch. Syn. Mamm. (1 8 2 9 ) p. 566. no. 6 a.
LA PANTHERE, F. Cuv. Hist, des Mamm. (1833) pls. 121, 122.
LEOPARDUS VARIUS, Gray, Cat. Mamm. Brit. Mus. (18 4 2 ) p. 40. sp. a, l , e, d, e, / , g, A.—Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1858) p. 513. sp. 6.—
Swinh. Proc. Zool. Soc. (1 8 7 0 ) p . 228.
FELIS PGECILURA, Valencien. Compt. Rend. (1 8 5 6 ) t. xlii. p. 1036 (light-coloured individual).
LEOPARDUS JAPONENSIS, J. E. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1862) p. 262. pl. xxxiii., (1867) p. 264.—Id. Cat. Cam. Mamm. (1869) p. 11.
sp. 2.—Swinh. Proc. Zool. Soc. (1 8 7 0 ) pp. 4 , 628.
LEOPARDUS PERNIGER, Hodgs. Cat. Mamm. & Birds Nepal, 2nd ed. (1863) p. 3. sp. 25.
FELIS FONTANIERI, A. Milne-Edw. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, (Zool.).t. viii. (1867) p. 375.—Id. Recherch. Mamm. (1871) p. 208. pls. xxix., xxx.
LEOPARDUS CHINENSIS, J. E. Gray, Proc. Z00L Soc. (1867) p. 264, fig. 2 (skull).—Id. Cat. Cam. Mamm. (1869) p. 11. sp. 3 , fig. 2 (skull).
LEOPARDUS PARDUS, J. E. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (18 6 7 ) p. 263.—Id. Cat. Cam. Mamm. (1869) p. 10. sp. 1.
PANTHERA NIMR, Fitzin. Sitzgsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, .(1868) lviii. p. 461.
PANTHERA NIMR NIGER, id. ibid. p. 466.
PANTHERA ANTIQUORUM, id. ibid. p. 466.
PANTHERA LEOPARDUS, id. ibid. p. 468.
PANTHERA VARIEGATA, id. ibid. p. 473.
PANTHERA ORIENTALIS, id. ibid. p. 477.
PANTHERA PARDA, id. ibid. p. 457.—Severtz. Rev. Mag. Zool. (1858) p. 387.
H a b . India generally: Dukhun (Sy k e s ) ; Southern Mahratta country (E l l io t ). Malayan peninsula (H o b s f i e l d ).
Java, Sumatra (M ü l l e b ). Abundant in Malabar, the Wynaad, Goomsoor, and wooded parts of the Himalayas
( J e b d o n ) . Common in Burma (B l y t h ) . Northern China, vicinity of Pekin (F o n t a n ie b ) ; island of Hainan
(S w in h o e ). Persia. Africa generally.
I n the accompanying Plates I have given representations of the two styles which exist among the animals generally known
as Leopards. To state exactly where one form ends and the other begins is impossible; but the large one, exhibited on the