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round the neck ; but others have a white throat, 

 bn^aft, and belly. They have black eyes, 

 and whifkers like our rabbits ; but they want 

 the tail *. The tapeti Vefembles the hare in 

 its manner of living, in fecundity, and in the 

 quality of its flefh, which is extremely good. 

 Like the hare, if dwells in the fields or in the 

 woods, and burrows not, like the rabbit t* 

 The animal of New Spain, mentioned by Fer- 

 nandes, under the name of ckll, appears to be 

 the fame with the tapeti % of Brafil ; and both 

 ar-e perhaps only varieties of the European 

 hares, who have pafTed by the northern lands 

 from the one Continent to the other. 



Some other fpecies of animals might be added 

 to the preceding lift ; but the accounts given of 

 them are fo vague, that 1 choofe rarl.er to con- 

 fine myfelf to what is known with fome de- 

 gree of certainty, than to give way to con- 

 jedure, or to exhibit creatures of imagination 

 as real fpecies. But, nocwithftanding tins hmi- 

 tation, intelligent men will eaiily perceive, that 

 my hiftory of quadrupeds is as complete as they 

 could poffibly expedl. It comprehends a greut 

 number of new animals, and none of thofe 

 who were formerly known are omitted. 



S 3 The 



* Marcgr. hift. nat. Brafil. p. 223. fig. p. 224. 



+ Pifon, hift. Brafil, p. 102. 



t Citli. Lepores novae Hifpaniac noftratibus fimiles 



forma atque alimento, fed auriculis longiffimis pro corporis 

 magnitudine, latiflimifque ; Fn/iandei, hiji. ai.im. nw t^hp. 

 p. 2. cap. 3. 



