SEA OTTER. 
forth her young. These ditches are not made 
in retired places ; but where the animals live 
in commoiij and come to amuse themselves. 
I carefully examined their habitations, and 
found them to be always exceedingly clean. 
They leave not the smallest Herb in the neigh- 
bourhood. They heap up, at a distance, the 
fragments of the fishes they eat ; and, by leap- 
ing, going, and returning, they make their 
roads extremely neat and commodious.' 
Nota — These characters correspond with the 
Saricovienne ; but tlic name Guachi seems to 
be here improperly applied ; betause it pro- 
bably belongs to a species of Aloufeito, which 
we have called the Coase." 
On referring to Buifbn's account of his 
Coa^e, we find nothing to warrant this last 
observation, which w-c are entirely at a loss to 
account for. Indeed, we are unable to con- 
ceive, by what mode of rcasoninoj BulFon has 
persuaded himself, that the Guachi, an inha- 
bitant bf " the rivers which fall into the 
Oronoko," is the true Sea Otter. 
Pennant is of opinion, that the Saricovienne 
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