THE LONG-NOSED CAVY. 



Generic Characters. 

 Two cutting teeth in each jaw. 

 Four toes on the fore feet, three behind. 

 Ears fhort 



No tail, or a very fhort one. 



Synonims. 



Aguti vel Acuti, Marcgrave Brafil, 224. Pifo Brafil, 102. 

 Aguti ou Agoutis, de Laet. 484. Rochefort Antilles, i. 287. 

 Mus Aguti, Linn. Syjt. 80. 

 Cavia Aguti, Klein Quad. 50. 

 Mus Sylvestris Aguti, Raii Syn. Quad. 220. 

 . Cuniculus caudatus, Briffon Quad. 98. 

 Cuniculus omnium vu lgatissimus, Aguti vulgo, Barrere 



France JEquin, 153. 

 L'Agouti, de Buff on, viii. 375. tab. 1. 

 Small Indian Coney, Browns Jamaica, 484. 

 Long-Nosed Rabbit, Wafer 's Voy. in Dampier, iii. 401. 



THIS animal is about the lize of a Rabbit: its nofe is long; the upper 

 lip is divided in the middle, like the upper lip of the Hare; the ears are 

 ftiort and round; the eyes black and lively; the legs almoll deftitute of hair, 

 and very llender and black; the tail fliort and without hair: it has four 

 toes on the fore feet, and three on the hinder ones; its hair is harlh and 

 ItifT, like that of a fucking Pig; the colour of the hair on the body is a 



