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CARNIVORA. 
in the very curious collection made under the eye 
of the celebrated John Maurice, Count of Nassau, 
(commonly styled Prince Maurice), who commanded 
the Dutch forces in Guiana in the seventeenth 
century; which collection is now in the royal li- 
' brary at Berlin. The figure is as here represented, 
with two names, 9ugua9uararra, and 9ugua9uguarana, 
above ; and in the prince’s hand is written, sehr 
furios und nicht grosser als ein kleine katze,” very 
furious, and not larger than a small cat. This figure 
is copied in oil, in another book, with the same 
names, and a note of Markgrave, who, by some mis- 
take, has confounded it with the South American 
couguar, or puma : and, in examining the descrip- 
tion, he has extracted the word couguar out of the 
Brazilian denomination. Azara, who describes this 
animal, states, that there is some uncertainty as to its 
name ; but he believes that this, as well as his yagou- 
aroundi, is known by the name eira. The name haira 
was also given to a species of wild cat, sent to Buffon 
from America. The original drawing, whence the 
figure was taken, corresponds so exactly with Azara’s 
animal, as to leave no doubt of its identity; while the 
note upon it renders it at least prudent to adopt the 
name of puma, and to drop that of couguar, for the 
animal vulgarly known by the name of the American 
lion. 
The yagouafoundi, or jaguaroundi, seems likely to 
be a black variety of the above animal. 
The other specimen, figured in the same plate 
with the eira, is from a stuffed cat in the museum of 
