JAGUARETTE. 
take six years in acquiring their full grovvth. 
He adds, that there is a third species in these' 
countries, called the Black Tiger ; of which,'* 
says BufFon, " we have given a figure^ under 
the appellation of the Black Couguar. 
" The head," according to M. De la 
Borde," is pretty similar to that of the coA- 
mon Coup-uar : but the animal has lono: black 
hair, and likewise a long tail^ and strong 
whiskers. He weighs not above forty pounds^. 
The female brings forth her young in the hol- 
lows of old trees. 
j- : BufFon says, this Black Cbuguar may be 
I the same animal which Piso and Marcgrave 
""call tlie Jaguarette, or Jaguar with black hair;: 
and which no other traveller has mentioned 
j under the name of Jaguarette.. I only find,'*' 
■ says. he, *' in a note of M. Sonini de Manon- 
coor, that the Jaguarette is called the Black 
I Tiger, at Cayenne; and that he is a different 
Upecies from the Jaguar, being smaller, and: 
thinner in the body. This animal is fierce,, 
and rapacious, but he is very rare in the 
Jieighbourhood of Cayenne.'^ 
