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rica, becaufe they have no fpots. J They take 

 the roe-deer as cats do mice. As to the tyger- 

 €ats,^ they kill the wild oxen in the following 

 manner. They get upon a tree, in a little path 

 where the oxen are ufed to go to the river ; and 

 as they come by, the tyger-cats fall upon the 

 necks of the oxen, bite through their throats and 

 Aa 4 kill 



Jar beary Penn. Synn. Quad. p. 192. to 20. f. i. as this lat- 

 ter is only to be met with in the moft frigid parts of our 

 globe ; and the foft hair here mentioned will not admit to 

 think of the polar bear, whofe hair is like briilles. The com- 

 mon black bear is fometimes found quite white in Siberia, 

 and therefore it is not improbable that fome of thefe white 

 bears are found in the interior parts of Nort^ America. Befides 

 this, I find it neceflary, here to obferve, that the black Fir- 

 ginia bear feems to me to be a fpecies different from our Eu- 

 ropean bears, my reafons for this opinion are thefe : /r/f, 

 the European bear has never fo black a coat as the Virginian, 

 J'econdly, the fnout of the Virginian is longer, and the head 

 fonaller than in our European ones ; thirdly, the European 

 bear is more clumfy than the Virginian. F. 



X The North American tyger is the Caguacara of Marg- 

 grave, or the bronjon Cat, Penn. Syn, quad. p. 179. In 

 South America it is immenfely fierce on account of the heat 

 cf the climate, and miftakenly called a lion. F. 



§ The American tyger-cat is the pichou dufud mentioned in 

 Kalm sTra<velsy^voL 3. p.- 275, and Fenn. Syn, quad. Cayen^ 

 ne Cat, p. 182. 



