Q44 THE MANED AGUARA. 
confidence or familiarity even with dogs. Its sight 
was not strong in the glare of day ; it retired to rest 
about ten in the morning, and again about midnight. 
In the dark, the eyes sometimes shone like those of 
a true wolf. When let loose, the animal refused to 
acknowledge command, and would avoid being 
taken till driven into a corner, where crouched it 
lay, until grasped by the hand, without offering 
further resistance. The Aguara guazu, though not 
hunted, is exceedingly distrustful, and having an 
excellent scent and acute hearing, is always enabled 
to keep at a distance from man; and though often 
seen, is but seldom within reach of the gun, The 
female litters in the month of August, having three 
or four whelps. Its voice consists in a loud and 
repeated drawling cry, sounding like a-gou-d-a-a, 
which is heard to a considerable distance. 
In the next groups, we mean to describe the wild 
dogs and the so called foxes of South America, 
which, in order to be clearly ascertained, demand a 
further subdivision, because the form of their heads, 
bodies, tails, eyes, and colours are not sufficiently 
alike to constitute an homogeneous section. There 
is still considerable uncertainty in the distribution 
of the smaller canines into diurnal and nocturnal 
classes ; because the only positive criterion to dis- 
tinguish them depends upon the form of the pupils 
of the eyes one being a circular disk, the other a 
