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Sea-wolf, or fmaller fea-calf, 27. 



Black-wolf, different from the common wolf, 19. 



Mapach, a curious quadruped of Mexico, 17. 



Margai, or Tyger-cat. This name may have been ta- 

 ken from the Mbaracaja of the Paraguefe, 27. 



Marikina, or lion-ape, a fpecies of cercopithecus, 30. 



Marmosa, a fmall and curious quadruped of hot and 

 temperate countries of America, 21. 



Marmot, called by the Canadians Muax, 26. 



Mico, the fmalleft fpecies of the cercopitheci (h), 30. 



Morse, a large amphibious animal of the fea, 27. 



Ocelotl, (i) or leopard-cat of Mexico, 27. 



Ondatra, ( rat mufque du Canada J a quadruped fimi- 

 lar to the moufe, 20. 



Brown-bear, \j. 



Black-bear, fpecifically different from the brown, 17. 



Paca, a quadruped fimilar to the pig in hair and grunt- 

 ing, but in head like a rabbit. In Brazil, Paca 9 

 in Paraguay Pag, Quito Picuru, and Oronoko Ac- 

 curi, 21. 



Paco, a quadruped of South America of the fame kind, 

 not however of the fame fpecies, with the Llama. The 

 Indian name is Allpaca, 26. 



Pecari, a quadruped which has upon its back a hu- 

 morous gland which (links, by many fuppofed to be 

 its navel. The true names of it in different coun- 

 tries of America, are thofe of faino, cojametl, tatabro, 

 and pachira (/) 20. 



Pr K \ N, 



(b) Mho in Spanifh is the generic name of the cercopitheci, but Buffon only 

 applies it to the fmalleft fpecies. 



i) Ocelotl in Mexican is the name of the tyger ; but Buffon applies it tp the 

 Leapard-cat. 



(I) It is not improbable that the Pecari has been fo called by Buffon from 

 pachira, which is the name g iven to this quadruped in Oronoko I 'uffon calk 

 it alfo TayoJ/ou, but Tajazu, as it fhould be written in the Guarani tongue, i* 

 the common name for all the fpecies of hogs. 



