. Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution… . jh y* The Leopard S69 fur and ill-defined markings. In November 1888 I shot a leopard morenearly approaching a melanoid than any I have yet seen from Africa. Thefur was dark Vandyke-brown, with a surprisingly rich orange gloss, spotseither black or sepia-brown, but barely distinguishable in some places ; earswithout the usual buff tips. Two leopards exhibiting strong traces ofmelanism have been killed in the Cape Colony, one near Albany, the othernear Grahamstown. The typical hill and low-country leopards presentthe extremes
. Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution… . jh y* The Leopard S69 fur and ill-defined markings. In November 1888 I shot a leopard morenearly approaching a melanoid than any I have yet seen from Africa. Thefur was dark Vandyke-brown, with a surprisingly rich orange gloss, spotseither black or sepia-brown, but barely distinguishable in some places ; earswithout the usual buff tips. Two leopards exhibiting strong traces ofmelanism have been killed in the Cape Colony, one near Albany, the othernear Grahamstown. The typical hill and low-country leopards presentthe extremes of variation, the gradual transition from one to the otherbeing displayed in the more numerous intermediate forms. The former,inhabiting mountain ranges, foot-hills, and dark wooded kloofs, averages6 feet 5 inches in total length, of which the tail is about 2 feet 10 inches,shoulder height 2 feet 5 inches, girth behind shoulders 2 feet 8 inches,girth of forearm 11 inches. The fur is dark and rich in colour, and thespots on the back, between neck and root of tail,
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