154 ZOOLOGY. 



Guaziiara, Azara, Essai I, 1801, 133. 



Curjuacuarana, Marcgrave, Hist. Nat. Bras. 1648, 235. 



VrLG. Panther, or Puma. Co^igar. Leon. 

 The •well-known jjantlier of the United States is one of the few species of mammals belong- 

 ing to North America that are distributed over the southern half of our continent. It is, how- 

 ever, as well known in Brazil, Paraguay, and Chile, as in the forests of North America. Its 

 extreme southern range is to Patagonia, about latitude 53° or 54° in South America, and to 

 about 49° or 54° in North America. Its habits are much the same everywhere, confining itself 

 to extensive wooded districts, or the belts of timber along the borders of streams ; not often 

 seen on the open plains, like the jaguar. The panther is much less dreaded in South America 

 than the jaguar, 



CANIS MAGELLANICUS, Gray. 



Canis magellanicus, Gray, Pr. Zool. Soc. Lond. IV, 1836, 88. 

 Waterh. Zool. Beagle, 1838, 10, PL v. 

 Wagner, Suppl. Schreber, I, 1844, 416. 

 Gay, Hist. Chile, Zoologia, I, 1847, 89. 

 Vulpes magellanica, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. I, 1837, 578. 

 Culpeu, Molina, Comp. Chile, I, 330, 332. 

 This large fox, exceeding in size all the North American species, excepting, perhaps, Vulpes 

 macrourus, Baird, was first made known to naturalists by specimens brought from Tierra del 

 Fuego by Captain King. It is quite abundant in Chile as far north as Copiapo, and has thus 

 a range of at least 1,600 miles. A remarkable peculiarity in respect to this animal is men- 

 tioned by Molina, and strongly corroborated by Gay, namely: that when it sees a man it runs 

 towards him, and, standing at a distance of only a few yards, gazes attentively at him. This, 

 of course, gives an excellent opportunity for killing the fox ; and it is added, that large num- 

 bers are annually destroyed in this way, without the acquisition by the race of a wholesome 

 distrust of mankind. 



CANIS AZARAE, Max. 



Canis azarae, Max. Beit. Nat. Braziliens, II, 1826, 338. 

 Ib. Abbild. Taf. xxiii. 

 Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 1829, 191. 



Waterhouse, Zool. Beagle, Mammalia, 1838, 14, PI. vii. 

 Wagner, Su^jpl. Schreber, Saiigt. II, 1841, 534, Tab. xcii, A. 

 ScHiNZ, Synopsis Mamm. I, 1844, 418. 

 Gay, Hist. Chile, Zoologia I, 1847, 61. 

 BuRJiEiSTER, Thiere Brasiliens, I, 1854, 96. 

 Canis hrasiliensis, LuND, Bras. Dyrv. Taf. xlii, f. 81-3. 

 Canis melanostomus, Wagn. Wieg. Archiv. 1843, 358. — 1846, 147. 

 Agourachay, Azara, Hist. Nat. Quad. Parag. I, 1801, 317. 

 VuLG. Chilla, in Chile ; Baposo de Mato, Brazil ; Agourachay, Paraguay. 

 This fox is rather smaller than the Vulpes fulvus of North America ; much less than C. ma- 

 gellanicus. In size and general appearance it bears no inconsiderable resemblance to the Vulpes 

 velox, or Kit fox, of the Missouri plains. Gay, however, and others, raise a serious question as 

 to there being any essential difi'erence between Canis azarae and magellanicus. 



This animal has a very wide range ; so extended, indeed, as to excite a strong suspicion that 



