Cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus (Hunting leopard, Felis jubata) Possibly the panther of the ancients. Handcoloured steel engraving by Joseph Kidd after an illustration by Alexander Forbes from William Rhind’s The Miscellany of Natural History: Feline Species, edited by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Fraser & Co., Edinburgh, Scotland, 1834.

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