MAMMALIA, GLIRES. Cavy. 217 



lour; the tongue is narrow, thick, and fomewhat rough; the hinJ legs are longer than the fore, and 

 reft on the fole of the foot as far as the heel; all the feet have five toes armed with claws, the inner 

 claw being very fhort. The female has two teats fituated between the liind thighs ; and has only a 

 fingle young one at each litter. The whole epper parts of the body are covered with fhort, coarfe, 

 thinly fcattered hairs, of a dufky, or dark brown, colour, which is deeper on the back ; the fides are 

 marked with five rows of white, grey, or yellowifh fpots, ahnoft running into each other ; the belly, 

 breaft, throat, and mfides of the legs are of a dirty white. 



444 jS. White Paca. — C. Paca alba. 



Entirely of a White colour. De Laet. 484. Penn. hift. of quad. p. 364. 



This variety inhabits the environs of the river St Francis in South America; and, except in colour, 

 refembles in every thing the animal defcribed above. 



.445 2. Akouchy. — 2. Cavia Acufchy. 2. 



Has a fhort tail ; the upper parts of the body are of an olive colour, the under parts 

 whitifh. Erxleb. mam. 354. Schreber, iv. 612. t. clxxi. B. 



Akouchy, Cuniculus olivaceus minor, or Lefler Rabbit, of an olive colour. Barrere, Fr. equin. 

 153. Des Marchais, iii. .303. Sm. Buff. v. 61. and viii. 269. pi. cexcii.— Olive Cavy. Penn. hift. 

 ■of quad. n. 237. 



Inhabits Guiana, Cayenne, and Brafil. — Is about the fize of a half grown Rabbit, is eafily tamed, 

 and is reckoned very delicate food. The female brings one, fometimes two, at a litter. This fpecies 

 refembles the following, or Agouti, but is uniformly fmaller, has a tail of fome length, and is of a 

 'different colour. It inhabits the woods, living on fruits; abhors water, and fometimes, though rare- 

 ly, makes a cry like that of the Reftlefs Cavy, 



3. Agouti.— 3. Cavta Agutl. 3. 



Has a very fhort tail ; the upper parts of the body are of a brown colour, mixed with 

 red and black, the rump of a bright orange, and the belly yellowifh. Erxleb. mam. 

 353. Schreber, iv. 613. t. clxxii. 



•Of this fpecies there are three varieties mentioned in authors, viz. 



4.6 a. Lefler Agouti. — C. JguSi ainicularis. 



Has a very fhort tail, four toes before, three behind, and a yellowifh belly. Syft. nat. 

 ed. xii. i. 80. n. 2. 



Cuniculus Agouti, having external ears and a tail, and covered with coarfe fur of a mixed red- 

 difh and dark brown colour. BrifT. quad. 143. Gronoph. zooph. i. 4. n. 14 — Small Indian Coney, 

 or Larger Moufe, of a brown afh colour, with a very fhort tail. Brown, Jamaic. 484. — Mus fylvef' 

 tris americanus, or American wild Moufe, as large as a rabbit, and having the hair and voice of 

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