JAGUARETTE. 
This animal inhabits Brasll, and Guiana ; 
and is a cruel and fierce beast, much dreaded 
by the Indiai"is, but happily a scarce species. 
This is all the information derivable from 
Pennant; except his observation, given in a 
note, that BufFon, on account of the black 
spots, suspe£ls it to be only a variety of the 
Erasilian Tiger. But," concludes Pennant, ^ 
" since M. Des Marchais, who describes it 
very exa(ftly, makes no mention of it's being 
spotted, nor had the two which were shewn 
in London, some years ago, any spots on 
them ; it is very probable that the Jaguarette 
described by Marcgrave was a variety of this 
species, and not of his Jaguara, as it agrees 
with it in the ground colour, and in it's supe- 
rior size." 
Buffon notices, in his account of the Jaguar, 
the remark made by Piso and Marcgrave, that 
the Jaguarette is distinguished from the Jaguar, 
by having shorter, more bright, and differently 
coloured hair; which is black, variegated with 
spots of a still deeper black : " but," adds 
BufFon, in every other particular, he re- 
sembles 
