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| A wonderful leopard skin | |
| 1908 Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (18): 670-670 | |
In our report of the meeting of the Zoological Society reference is made to a remarkable leopard skin from the Deccan recently presented to the British Museum. As regards its markings, this skin presents, perhaps, the most extraordinary variation from the normal type that has ever been noticed in the case of large animals. So remarkable, indeed, is the variation that if the locality whence it was obtained were not thoroughly well authenticated the skin would be unhesitatingly regarded as indicating a new and, at the same time superbly handsome, species or race. Although the black markings present some approximation in pattern and mode of arrangement to the jaguar type, the head and back are ornamented by an altogether peculiar kind of big-meshed network of broad buff lines, the first mesh, which occupies the head, being much larger than all the others. |
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