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130. Black. 
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running up trees : but then they are equally deftruc- 
tive to domeftic animals, and are the greateft nu- 
fance the planter has : when they lay in wait for the 
Moofe , or other deer*, they lie clofe on the branch 
of fome tree, ’till the animal paftes beneath, when 
they drop on them, and foon deftroy them: they alfo 
make wolves their prey: that whofe ikin is in the 
Mufeum of the Royal Society^ was killed juft as it had 
pulled down a wolf: conceal fuch part of the prey 
which they cannot eat: purr like a cat: the fur foft, 
and of fome value among the Indians , who cover 
themfelves with it during winter: the defh is alfo 
eaten, and faid to be as good and as white as vealf. 
Jaguarete Marcgrave Brafil , 235* RaiiJyn. quad, 169. 
Pifo Brafil, 103. Once des Marcbais } III. 300. 
C. with the head, back, Tides, fore part of the legs* 
and the tail, covered with ftiort and very glofty hairs, 
of a dulky color , fometimes fpotted J with black, 
* Charlevoix, voy. Nouv. France , V. 189, who, by miftake, calls 
it Carcajou. 
t Mr. Dupont once ftiewed me, fome years ago, the tail of an 
animal from South America, three quarters of a yard long, covered 
with Ihort white glofty hair: a piece of the fkin of the back was left 
to it, on which were black hairs near eight inches long. I mention 
it here as belonging to fome plain colored beaft of this genus. Per¬ 
haps the c T%onyz,tac feu quadrupes capillorum candentium, brevibus eruri- 
bus, colore atro, manibus pedibufque et corporis magniiudine figris; ac 
prolixa cauda. Fernandez quad. nov. Hifp. 3. 
J For which reafon M. de Ruff on fufpefts it to be only a variety 
of No. 127 5 but lince M. Des Marchais , who deferibes it very ex¬ 
actly, makes no mention of its being fpotted, nor had the two 
which were fhewn in London fome years ago any fpots on them; it 
is very probable then, that the Jaguarete , deferibed by Marcgrave , 
was a variety of this fpecies, and not of his Jaguar a , as it agrees 
with it in the ground color, and in its fuperior fize. 
but 
