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along the boughs, as if dead, ’till the monkies, 
tempted by their natural curiofity, approaching to 
examine it, become its prey *. 
Cugacuarana. Marcgrarve Brajit. quin. 1 66. DuFratz.il. 63. 129. 
235. Railfyn. quad. 169. Tigris fulva. Felis ex flavo ru- 
Cugacnara Pifo Brajil, 103. fefcens, mento et infimo ventre 
Panther Lawfm Carolina , 117. albicantibus. BriJJon quad. 197. 
Cate/by Carolina App. Le Cougnar de Bztjmm ix. 216. 
Tigris fulvus Barr ere France JE- tab. xix. 
C. with a very fin all head : ears a little pointed ; 
eyes large : chin white : back, neck, rump, Tides, 
pale brownifh red, mixed with dufky hairs : bread, 
belly, and iniide of the legs cinereous : hair on the 
belly long : tail dufky, and ferruginous; the tip 
black : the teeth of a vail fize : claws white: the 
out moil claw of the fore feet much larger than the 
others: is long bodied, and high on its legs : the 
length from nofe to tail, five feet three inches; of 
the tail two feet eight. 
Inhabits the continent of America , from Canada 
to Brazil: in South America is called Puma \, and 
midaken for the lion : is the fcourge of the colonies 
of the hotter parts of America 5 fierce and ravenous 
to the higheft degree : fwirns over the broad rivers, 
and attacks the cattle, even in the enelofures ; and 
when prefled with hunger, fpares not even mankind. 
In N. America their fury lee ms to be fubdued by the 
rigor of the climate ; the fmailed cur, in company 
with its mader, makes them feek for fecurity, by 
* Hernandez Mex. 514. 
f Hernandez Mex. 518. Condamines voy. Si. 
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