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fucks out the blood before it devours it: makes a 
great noife in the night, like the howling of a 
hungry dog : is a very cowardly animal: eafily put 
to flight; either by the fhepherds dogs, or by a light¬ 
ed torch, being very fearfull of tire : it lies in 
ambufh near the fides of rivers: there is fometimes 
feen a Angular combat between this animal and the 
crocodile *, when the Jaguar comes to drink, the cro¬ 
codile, ready to furprize any animal that approaches, 
raifes its head out of the water, the former inftantly 
ftrikes its claws into the eyes of this dreadfull rep¬ 
tile, the only penetrable part, who immediately 
dives under the water, pulling his enemy along with 
it, where they commonly both perifh *. 
Tlacoozelotl;Tlalocelotl. Catus- tab.xxxv. xxxvt. _ 128. M e x 1 
pardus mexicanus. Hernandez. Felis iylveitris, americanus, Ti- can. 
Mex. 512. grinus. Seb. Muf.l. 47. tab.xXx . 
L’Qcelot de Buffon , xiii. 239. fg. 2, & 77. tab. xlviii. Jig. 2. 
C. with its head, back, upper part of the rump and 
tail of a bright tawny : a black ftripe extends along 
the top of the back, from head to tail: from the 
noftrils to the corners of the eyes, a ftripe of black : 
forehead fpotted with black : the fides whitifh, 
marked lengthways with long ftripes of black, hol¬ 
low, and tawny, in the middle ; in which are fprink- 
led fome fmall black fpots : from the neck towards 
the fhoulders point, others of the fame colors : the 
rump marked in the fame manner : legs whitifh, va- 
* Condajninis uoy. 81. 
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