JAGUARETTE. 
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•scriptlon, as to the whiskers. If this last 
^gentleman's ohservation respe<Sling the Jagu- 
ar, and the Couguar, may be applied, as seems 
likely, to what he calls the third species, or 
Black Couguar; in the scarceness of the lat- 
ter, we may trace another aSnity, and the 
full growth of these animals not being at- 
.tained in less than six year, taken both toge- 
ther, may throw light on the vast difFerence 
of size between an animal weighing only 
forty pounds, and a Jaguar of two hundi ed, or 
the probably still superior magnitude of the' 
Jaguarette, described as equalling a young 
Heifer, or Calf of a year old. 
Either these difterences must be thus recon- 
ciled, or there are two species confounded 
one of which, in that case, should probabh 
be called the Black Couguar, and the othc 
" the Black Ounce, the Black Tiger, or th< 
Jaguarette. 
The refle£lions thus ofFered are submitte 
to ingenious naturalists; who may, hereaftei 
possess opportunities of observing these an 
jmals, wdthcut which nothing decisive cai 
