«;6 CAT. 
ufed for the chace of antelopes, and even hares; 
but, inftead of being conveyed in a waggon, is car¬ 
ried on the crupper on horfeback ^ is under as much 
command as a fetting dog, returns at the lei! call, 
and jumps up behind its matter *. 
Is fuppofed to be the letter Panther of Oppian, 
and the Panther a of Pliny f. 
llj. Bra si- Jaguara Marcgrave Brajil, 235. quibufdam rofam referentibus 
J.IAN. Pifo Brafd, 2 03. variegata. Brijfon quad. 196. 
Pardus aut Lynx Brafilienfis Ja- Felis onpa. Felis cauda meaiocri, 
guara didta, Lufitanis onza. Rail corpore flavefcente, ocellis nigris 
Jyn. quad. 168. Klein, quad. 80. rotundato angulatis medio flavis. 
Le Tigre de La Guiane Des Mar- Lin.JyJl. 91 . 
chaise voy. III. 299. Le jaguar de Buffon^ ix. 201. tab. 
Tigris americana. Felis flavef- xviiL 
cens, maculis nigris orbiculatis 
C. with hair of a bright tawny color: the top of 
the back marked with long ftripes of black : the 
ttdes with rows of irregular oblong fpots : open in 
the middle, which is of the ground-color of the 
hair: the thighs and legs marked with full fpots 
of black: the breaft and belly whitifli: the tail not 
fo long as the body : the upper part deep tawny, 
marked with large black fpots, irregularly: the 
lower part with fmaller fpots : grows to the ttze 
of a wolf, and even larger. 
Inhabits the hottett parts of S. America , from, 
the ifthmus of Darien to Buenos Ayres: fierce and 
definitive to man and beaft. Like the tiger it 
plunges its head into the body of its prey, and 
* Ole arias travels into Perfia, 218. 
«f Pantheris in Candida breves ?nacularum sruli. lib. viii. c. 17. 
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