HISTORY OF MEXICO. 



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Toporagno (in the Spanifh mufaraha), 30. 



Tuza, not Tucan, as count de Buffon writes (p ) ; in 

 Mexican, Tozan ; a quadruped of Mexico, of the 

 Mole kind, but larger and more beautiful, 30. 



Vampiro, great bat of America. 



Uarin a, with Buffon, Ouarine (q)\ great-bearded cer- 

 copithecusy called in Quito Omeco, 30. 



Vison, or American pole-cat, 27. 



Uistiti, fpecies of fmall cercopithecus, 30. 



Unau, a fpecies of floth without tail, (r) 26. 



Common Fox, 14. 



Urson, quadruped of cold countries, fimilar to but dif- 

 ferent from the beaver, 25. 

 Zorrillo, or Zorriglio, a fpecies of polecat (j), 27. 



From this catalogue we fee that the count de Buffon, 

 who could not find more than feventy fpecies of quadru- 

 peds in all America, in the progrefs of his Natural Hif- 

 tory acknowledges and diftinguifhes at lead ninety-four ; 

 we fay at leasts as belides thofe above mentioned we 

 ought to mention the common hog, the ermine, and 

 others, which, denied by Buffon to America in fome 

 places of his hiftory, are granted to it in others. 



Vol. III. Kk SECT. 



(p ) We know not if the Tuza is of the fame fpecies of quadruped which the 

 Peruvians call Tupu tupu. 



(g) The count de Buffon doubts whether the Aluata which is a cercopithecus 

 of a large fize, is of the fame fpecies with the Uarina ; but we allure him it is 

 certainly of the fame fpecies, and therefore we have not put down the Aluata, 

 (which he writes Alouate 1 in this catalogue. 



(r ) The count de Buffon juftly diftinguifhes two fpecies of the floth, the one 

 furniflied with a tail, the other not ; becaufe befides this they bear other differ- 

 ent characters. In Quito they call the floths ^jiillac, or Quigllac, and in Orono- 

 ko Proto. The Spaniards call them Pereza, which means flothfulnefs, and Pe- 

 rico ligero, or fwift dog, byway of antiphrafis. 



(s) Zorri/lo, or little fox, is the generic name which the Spaniards give to Pole- 

 cats. The Mexicans call them Epatl. In Chili Cbinghe, and in other countries 

 of South America Mapurito, Agnatuja, &c. 



