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Buffon, Comte dc, on the ass - - 28 



. on sheep - -43 



. his remarks on the goats of Bouavista - 51 



, . . .on the ibex - -55 



. . . .on the lama - 355 



. on the dog - 65' 



. . . .on the armadillo ... 279 



. on the manati - - 355, 359 



. . . .on the hampster - 213 



. . . .on the pangolin - - 283 



. . . .on the urson Uj. - 342 



. on the serval ... 334 



. on the American serval - - 336 



Caracal, the, description of 337 

 . used in hunting - - 338 

 . Lybian - 337 

 . . . Nubian , .f- .' ~. - ib. 

 Cat, the Angora, description of - 195 

 . its affection - - 196 

 the domestic, apt to become wild - 182 

 ..... attention of the female to her young 186, 191 

 ...'.' . . its disposition to cruelty - - 194. 

 *' t . . its courage - - 191 

 , its mode of catching trout <*-r.-ti - 193 

 . its playfulness when young - - 188 

 . " ." . .its sagacity - 185 

 '. " .. . . its vision - - - 1S9 

 f . . . a young rat nourished by - - 188 

 .' . . . electricity of its fur - 199 

 . . . . extraordinary behavior of one in conse- 

 quence of a murder '.-'' - 186 

 '. * . highly esteemed in former times - 189 

 . ' . of one that lost its tail, and the consequences 1 91 

 . three young squirrels nourished by - 187 

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