t H E HARE KIND. 9> 



a bed of leaves and dry grafs, and generally brings two ; breeds twice or 

 thrice a year, and carries her young from one place to another in the 

 manner of a cat ; lodges them when three days old in the hollow of a 

 tree, fuckling them but a very fiiort time j they quickly coiiie to per- 

 fedion, and probably are not long lived. 



THE P A G A 



S about the fize of a hare, or larger ; fomewhat refembles a fucking 

 pig in its grunting and its manner of eating; is covered with coarfe 

 hair, but beautifully marked along the fides with fmall afh-coloured 

 fpots, upon an amber-coloured ground j is rather more thick and cor- 

 pulent than the agouti j its nofe fhortef, and its hind feet have five 

 toes ; the ears are naked, and fomewhat fharp ; the lower jaw fomewhat 

 longer than the upper j the teeth, the fhape, and fize of the head, are 

 like thofe of the rabbit; has a fhort tail, not tufted, and its hinder legs 

 longer than the fore; burrows like a rabbit; does not ufe its fore-paws 

 to carry food to its mouth, but hunts for it on the ground, and roots 

 like a hog ; frequents the banks of rivers in the moid and warm countries 

 of South-America j is very fat; is eaten, fkin and all, like a young pigy 

 as a great delicacy ; defends itfelf to the laft extremity, and is feldom 

 taken alive. Net only man, but every bead and bird of prey watches 

 its motions; but though its race is thus continually deftroyed, it finds 

 refuge, and breeds in great numbers. 



The Tapeti, or Brafilian rabbit, refembles our Englidi ones, but is 

 much lefs ; is reddifh on the forehead, and a little whitilli under the 

 throat ; has no tail j has long ears, with whilkers, like our rabbits, and 

 black eyes ; does not burrow. 



The Aperea, called by fome the Brafilian rabbit, feems to partake 

 of the nature of a rabbit and a rat. The ears are like thofe of a rat, 

 Ihort and round ; the other parts like a rabbit, except that it has but 

 three toes on the hinder-legs. 



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