This description, Buffon tells us, was taken 
rom a young subjecl:, which had not acquired 
ialf it's growth. In his Supplement, there- 
bre, he mentions, that he had one sent him 
arger than the other when it arrived, and 
vhich continued to increase in size during the 
,vhole nine months which he kept it in his 
louse. He adds a copious account of it's mode 
p living and acting) from remarks by the 
Sieur .Trecourt, of which we shall extract 
ill the most interesting particulars. 
This animal, it appears, when provided with 
I wooden cage or box, with sufficient food, 
-emains perfectly tranquil during the day. It 
jseems even attached to it's retreat all day; for, 
after feeding, it spontaneously retires into it : 
but, on the approach of night, by perpetual 
restlessness and agitation, and by tearing the 
bars of it's prison with it's teeth, it discovers- 
a violent desire to get out.. Nothing of this 
kind happens during the day, unless when it 
has occasion to make some natural evacuation 
for it cannot endure the smallest dirtiness ink's 
apartment, and always voids it's excrement in 
the most distant corner it can find. When the 
straw 
