94 TRAVELS through 



tygers, leopards, foxes, wild cats, rabbets, tur- 

 kies, grons, pheafants, partridges, quails, 

 turtles, wood-pigeons, fwans, geefe, buftards, 



ducks 



with him, is however a man who never departs from an opi- 

 nion which he once has embraced, and which he will carry 

 by his eloquence in fpite of the moft creditable authorities to 

 the contrary. 



- 7, Foxes. Canis Vulpes, Lir.n. Fox, PenK* Syn, 

 ^a.i. 152. with all its varieties, the crofs fox, the bladk 

 fox, and the bfand fox. 



8. Wild Cats. Felis filveflris tigrina, BriJJon, ^ad* 

 193. Cayenne Cat, Pefin. Syn. ^ad, 182. 



9. Rabbets. There were originally no rabbets in Ame- 

 rica, but they were imported by the Spaniards, and are now 

 greatly increafed ; whether thefe, here cidled rabbets, On 

 the river MiJJiJippi, are the true rabbets, or whether they 

 are that kind of hare which is peculiar to North Ameri- 

 ca, cannot be decided. The North American hare feems to 

 be the Alpine hare, Penn. Syn. ^ad. 249 ; it is lefs in 

 fize than the European common hare, and a medium between 

 hare and rabbet, according to Kalm's North Amet\ I. p. 105. 



10. TuRKiEs. Meleagris Gallopavo, Linn. Le dindon, 

 Planches enlu?ninees, 97. 



11. Grous. There are about feven different kinds of 

 grous in Narth America^ 



{a) Tetrao 



