Black jaguar or black panther, Fanthera onca, with skull. Melanistic variant of the jaguar. (Felis discolor.) A specimen was exhibited in George Wombwell's Menagerie. 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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