J AGUARETTE, 
able, however ardent the thirst after know- 
ledge. 
. On comparing the different accounts with 
that of Pennant, we find much essential dis- 
similarity. The Black Jaguar has short 
black hair, spotted with srili deeper black ; 
and, probably, is a variety of our Jagua- 
rette : being, in fa61:, the Jaguarette of Piso 
and Marcgrave, as described also by BiifFon. 
Our Jaguarette cannot be called spotted, and it 
certainly is not quite black. In size, too, 
there does not appear to be any very material 
, difference. But the Black Couguar, de- 
. scribed by BufFon, or rather by his corre- 
, sponde.nt M. De laBorde, is said to have long 
J black hair, and to weigh only about forty 
,y pounds. M. Soninl de Manoncour, also, as 
we have seen, says that the Jaguarette, or 
Black Tiger, " is a different species from the 
g|,ijaguar, being smaller, and thinner in the 
body." Yet this gentleman's remark, that 
jj^; the " animal is fierce, and rapacious, but 
j^jjl very rare," corresponds with what is said by 
Pennant rcspedling our Jaguarette; and so, 
in some measure, does M. De la Borde's de- 
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