BRASILIAN TIGER. 
scribe — " The hair of the young Jaguar,''' 
says he, " is not crisped, as M. De BufFon al- 
ledges. I have seen young Jaguars with hair 
as smooth as that of adults. This observation 
has been confirmed by the most experienced 
hunters. With regard to their size, instead of 
equalling only, as M. De BufFon remarks, 
that of a common Dog, I have had tv^o skins, 
which I was assured belonged to subje6ls of 
two or three years old, and one of them mea- 
isured near five feet from the muzzle to the tail^ 
which was tvv^o feet long. I have myself 
seen, in the forests of Guiana, tracks of these 
animals, which induced me, as well as M. De 
la Condamine, to think that the American 
animals called Tigers were as large as those 
of Africa. 1 even think that, except the true 
01 Royal Tiger, the American Tiger is the 
largest animal to Vv^hich this appellation is 
Igiven : since, according to M. De BufFon, the 
Panther, which is the largest of these animals, 
exceeds not, when full grown, five or six feet 
in length j and it is certain, that there are 
'quadrupeds of this kind which greatly surpass 
jthese dimensions. The colour of the Jaguar 
varies 
