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<^ars short and round, the ej es small and sunken, 

 the nose cuneifoinij the nostrils compressed, 

 -with a Avhite spot between them, the mouth 

 broad like that of a toad, and the legs and tail 

 short. It has twelve incisors, the same number 

 of grindersj and four canine teeth, and the 

 tongue is very slender and smooth. The paws 

 resemble those of the lizard, and have five toes 

 armed with very crooked nails. It is naturally 

 ferocious, and so very irascible, that the in- 

 habitants give the name of quiqui to those per- 

 sons who are easily irritated. It lives under 

 ground, and feeds upon mice and moles like the 

 cuja ; the female breeds several times in a year, 

 and alvTays produces the same number at a 

 birth. 



The j'Hjrcupine (bistrix Chilensis) is found in 

 the northern Andes of Chili. The inhabitants 

 kill them for the sake of their skins. I have 

 never seen this animal, but from the description 

 Mhich I have had of it, it differs little or nothing 

 from the bistrix prensile, or coaudu of Brasil. 



The culpcii (canis culpcfMis) is a wild dog, or 

 rather a species of large fez, diifcriiig but little 

 from the comrnon foji, except in its size and its 

 colour, which is a dark brown, and in having a 

 loii.'i: strui-uiit tail covered with sl-ort hair like 

 that of the comuion dog. From the point of 

 the nose to Hie root of the tail it is two and a 

 kdW f ft. in Iciijrth, and its Lci'ilit is uboiit twen- 



