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The Ingenious and moft Learned Mr. Ray Queries^ 
Whether ^he Taulhi of Brafik^ deftribed by Mar-^ 
grave (a); differs from our Subjett, the Pcjfumi only in 
Sex ? Or, Whether 'tis another Species of Animal ? And 
indfed, by a Paffage in his Defcription of it, one would 
think, that Margrave did take the Ta't-ihi to be only the 
Male. I will tranfcribe the whole Paragraph, it not be- 
ing very long» that every one may have the Liberty of 
making their own ConjeSures. Xainbi-6r^///^;^/l^,(raith 
he) Lufitanu Chachorro do mato, Belgis een Bofchratte i 
Animal corpore tereti @* ohlongo. Totius corporis cum coSo 
longitude ah occipitio ad caudle initium quatuordecim digu 
torum^ craffities decern. Caput habet vulpino cemulumt ore 
actito, barlajelina: oculos confpicuos ^ prominentes, 
gros : aures fuhrotundas^ molles^ gracileSt allas^ teneroi 
ut chart a mollis, Crura, pedes & digitos cum unguibus 
habet ut fxmella jam defer ipta^ uti & caudam, Totum 
corpus veftitum efl pilis albis fplendentibus^ qui in extre^^ 
mi tat thus nigricant^ & magis quidem in dorfo^ maxime 
tamen in crurihm : circa anum & initium caud^ pene ni- 
gricant, Os & aures albicant. Cauda in exortu ad quinque 
digitorum longitudinem pilis vejiitur albis in extremitate 
nigr ic ant thus ^ reliqua pars major ad finem ufque cin£ia efl 
corio tenui fquamofo alb ic ante inflar exuviarum ferpentis» 
Fatet graviter^ caro tamen illius comeditur. Viclttat 
libenter gaSinis^ ut vulpes, Pili infer ti funt tenui cuti» 
cula, qu£ detrahi potefl falvo manente corio crajjiori. TV- 
fliculos propendentes habet ut felis mas. Had Margrave 
mentioned in his Defcription, the Marfupium or Pouchy 
it had been more clear ; but by the Account he gives, 
one cannot but think, that he make? the Carigueya^ the 
Female, and the Tai-ihi the Male of the fame Species of 
Animal As they eat the Tai-ibi, To Ralph Hamor (/} 
tells us, that lie has eaten the Pojfum^ and that 'tis a 
grateful and wholefom Food, 
Y Flfo 
