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BRASILIAN TIGER. 
Iasi used for the chace of antelopes, and even 
hares * but instead of being conveyed in a waggon 
like i :lie panther or hunting leopard, it is carried 
on the cropper on horseback, and is as much under 
command as a seating dog, and returns at the least 
call, and jump;: up behind its master ; it is sup- 
posed to be the panther of Pliny, and the lesser 
panther of Oppian. Their skins are brought from 
, China, and sold in Russia for twenty shillings 
apiece, 
Brasilian tiger, or jaguar. 
The hair of this animal is of a bright tawny 
colour ; the top of its back is marked with long 
stripes of black ; its sides with irregular oblong* 
spots, open in the middle ; the middle of these 
is of the ground colour of the hair ; the thighs 
and legs are marked with full black spots ; the 
breast and belly are whitish ; the tail is not so 
long as the body ; the upper part deep tawny, with 
large irregular black spots ; the lower with small 
spots. 
it grows to the size of a wolf, or even larger, 
and inhabits the hottest parts of South America, 
from the isthmus of Darien to Buenos Ayres ; it 
is fierce and destructive to man and beast. Like 
the tiger, it plunges its head into the body of its 
prey, and sucks out the blood before it devours it ; 
it makes a great noise in the night, like the howl- 
ing of a hungry dag* ; it is a very cowardly animal, 
and easily put to flight, either by tbe shepherd's 
dogs or by a lighted torch, as it is afraid of fire ; 
it lies in ambush near the sides of rivers, where 
it sometimes fights a singular combat with the cro- 
codile. When the jaguar comes to drink, the cro- 
codile, ready to surprize any animal that ap- 
proaches, raises his head out of the water ; the 
