(Journal d'Antoine
Galland, trad. par Ch. Schefer, I. p. 135.) The Cheeta (Gueparda
jubata) was, according to Sir W. Jones, first employed in hunting
antelopes by Hushing, King of Persia, 865 B.C. - H. C.]
NOTE 2. - The word rendered Lynxes is Leu cervers (G. Text), Louz
serviers of Pauthier's MS. C, though he has adopted from another Loups
simply, which is certainly wrong. The Geog. Latin has "Linceos i.e.
lupos cerverios." There is no doubt that the Loup-cervier is the Lynx.
Thus Brunetto Latini, describing the Loup-cervier, speaks of its
remarkable powers of vision, and refers to its agency in the production of
the precious stone called Liguire (i.e. Ligurium), which the ancients
fancied to come from Lync-urium; the tale is in Theophrastus). Yet the
quaint Bestiary of Philip de Thaun, published by Mr. Wright, identifies it
with the Greek Hyena: -
"Hyena e Griu num, que nus beste apellum,
Ceo est Lucervere, oler fait et mult est fere."
[The Abbe Armand David writes (Missions Cathol. XXI. 1889, p. 227) that
there is in China, from the mountains of Manchuria to the mountains of
Tibet, a lynx called by the Chinese T'u-pao (earth-coloured panther);
a lynx somewhat similar to the loup-cervier is found on the western
border of China, and has been named Lyncus Desgodinsi.
