THE JAGUAR. 



Description Depredations. 



with streaks, and oblong spots of black ; the 

 ridge of the hack is marked with long interrupted 

 black stripes, and the sides with rows of regular 

 open marks. The thighs and legs are likewise 

 marked with black spots, but without central 

 spaces. The throat, breast, and belly, incline 

 to white, and the tail, the upper part of which is 

 in ark ed with broad black spots, is not so long as 

 the body. 



They sometimes descend from their .lurking 

 places into the sheep-folds, and commit dreadful 

 havock among the flock, always destroying more 

 than they devour, and sometimes carrying off 

 whole sheep. 



It is a fortunate circumstance that when the 

 appetite of this animal is satisfied it seems to 

 Jose its courage and ferocity, and will fly before 

 a common dog : fire, or any other kind of light, 

 is sufficient to intimidate it. It is neither active 

 nor nimble, except when pressed by hunger. 



Almost all the authors who have written on 

 the New World, make mention of this animal, 

 some under the name of the tiger or leopard ; 

 others under its Brasilian appellation of janouara, 

 and some have called it the jaguara. 



The jaguar is found in Paraguay, Guiana, 

 Brasil, Mexico, Amazonia, and all South Ame- 

 rica. Brasil, however, seems to have been its 

 native climate, though it is now become more 

 rare here than formerly, a price having been set 

 upon its head ; in consequence of which great 

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