S12 NATURAL HISTORY. 



seizes it with its fore hoofs and teeth, fleas it in an 

 instant, and devours its flesh. 



The peccary, like the hog, is very prolific : the 

 Young ones follow the dam, and do not separate from 

 her till they have attained maturity. If taken at first 

 they are easily tamed, and soon loose all their natural 

 ferocity : they, however, never display any remarka- 

 ble signs of docility. They only continue to do no 

 mischief; and they may be permitted to run tame, 

 without any dangerous consequences : they seldom 

 stray far from home ; they return of themselves to the 

 sty, and do not quarrel among each other, except 

 when they happen to be fed in common. When en- 

 raged, they draw their breath with great force, and 

 their bristles point upward, and do not resemble the 

 bristles of the wild boar so much as the sharp armour 

 of the hedge-hog. 



THE ROUSETTE, OR TERN AT BAT*, 



The ROUGETTE t, and the VAMPIRE, or SPECTRE J. 



THE rousette, and the rougette, seem to form two 

 distinct species, which, however, are so like each other, 

 that they ought not, in my opinion, to be classed to- 

 gether : the latter differs from the former solely in the 

 size of the the body, and the colours of the hair. The 

 rousette, whose hair is of a reddish brown, is nine 

 inches long from the tip of the nose to the insertipn 



* Vulgarly ca'led the fly ing dog, and, by the generality of naturalists, 

 the great bat of Madagascar. 



t Vulgarly called t!:e red-necked flying ilog. 



% An American uniinal, which lias hitherto been solely indicated under 

 the vague names of great American bat, or flying dog'ofNew Spain. 



