Boar es +) MS 
ATS 7. 904 Ds. Gunws XIX. 
Hift. Quad, N° 160.—Smellie, vo 197. 200.—Lev. Mus. 
AT. With a {mall head: large eyes: ears a little pointed : 
chin white: back, neck, fides, and rump, of a pale brownifh 
red, mixed with dufky hairs: breaft, belly, and infide of the legs, ci- 
nereous : tail a mixture of dufky and ferruginous, the tip black. 
The teeth of a vaft fize: claws whitifh ; the outmoft claw of the 
fore feet much larger than the reft: the body very long: the legs 
high and ftrong. ‘The length of that I examined was five feet three 
from head to tail; of the tail, two feet eight. 
Inhabits the continent of North America, from Canada to Florida; and 
the fpecies is continued from thence low into South America, through 
Mexico, Guiana, Bra/fil, and the province of Quéto, in Peru, where it is 
called Puma, and by the Europeans miftaken for a Lion: it is, by 
reafon of its fiercenefs, the fcourge of the country. The different 
climate of North America feems to have fubdued its rage, and ren- 
dered it very fearful of mankind: the left cur, in company with his 
mafter, will make it run up a tree*, which is the opportunity of 
fhooting it. It proves, if not killed outright, a dangerous enemy ; 
for it will defcend, and attack either man or beaft. The flefh is 
white, and reckoned very good. The Indians ufe the fkin for winter 
habits; and when dreffed is made into fhoes for women, and gloves 
for ment. 
It is called in North America the Panther, and is the moft pernicious 
animal of that continent. Lives in the forefts. Sometimes purs, at 
other times makes a great howling. Is extremely deftruétive to do- 
® Catchy, App. xxv. + Law/en, 118. 
H meftic 
45. 
CAT. 
14. Pugaa. 
