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| Gnther, A. | |
| Second Note on the Melanotic Variety of the South-African Leopard | |
| 1886 Book Chapter | |
By the last South-African mail I have received from Mr. N. Abraliam, President of the Graham's-town Natural History Society, a letter with photograph enclosed, which gives more positive information about the variety of the Leopard of the district of Albany, mentioned by Mr. Trimen in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 535, and described by myself, ibid. 1885, p, 243, pl. xvi. The skin in Mr. Abraham's possesion leaves hardly any doubt that we have before us a case of incipent melanism, which, if the family in which the melanotic tendancy showed itself had been left undisturbed, might have been developed into as complete a condition of melanism as is occasionally found in the Asiatic Leopard. |
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