Animal products; . etimes used on draught and saddlehorses, and for ornamenting caps, fur garments, and cuffs. Leopardskins command good prices for hearth-rugs and military purposes,and for the seats of some carriages. The skin is worn as a mantleby the Hungarian nobles who form the royal body-guard ofAustria. In the Museum Collection is a fine African leopard skin rugbordered with bear skin, and four or five very choice Bechuanamantles or karosses made of leopard, and various other skins ofnative animals. There is another species of leopard known as the ounce(Leopardis undo), met with about t
Animal products; . etimes used on draught and saddlehorses, and for ornamenting caps, fur garments, and cuffs. Leopardskins command good prices for hearth-rugs and military purposes,and for the seats of some carriages. The skin is worn as a mantleby the Hungarian nobles who form the royal body-guard ofAustria. In the Museum Collection is a fine African leopard skin rugbordered with bear skin, and four or five very choice Bechuanamantles or karosses made of leopard, and various other skins ofnative animals. There is another species of leopard known as the ounce(Leopardis undo), met with about the shores of the Persian Gulf,the fur of which is rather paler, rougher, and thicker. Jaguar (Felis [Leopardus] onca), or American Panther. This animal is as large as a wolf, and is formidable for its strength and ferocity, in these points resembling the royal tiger of Bengal. It has a fur, the ground colour of which is a pale brown yellow, very beautifully marked with chocolate brown spots and with streaks and Q 2. FLESH OF THE JAGUAR—THE OCELOT. 229 stripes. It is used for ornamental purposes, as hearth-rugs, & seems to be a merciful dispensation of Nature that the mostterrible quadrupeds are not gregarious, but hunt alone or incouples. If lions, tigers, and jaguars herded like wolves, wholeprovinces would be depopulated by their ravages, and manwould hardly be able to hold them in any subjection. But bydestroying them in detail, their numbers can be kept withinbounds, and their depredations confined to their native forestsand jungles. An oil from the adipose tissue of the jaguar is used externallyin Brazil in cases of rheumatism, and also for fomenting Gauchos or herdsmen differ in their opinion whether thejaguar is good eating, but are unanimous in saying that cat isexcellent. Mr. Wallace, when travelling up the Amazon, one day hadsome steaks of the jaguar on the table, and found the meat verywhite, and without any bad taste. It appears evident to me,he adds
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