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but generally plain : upper lips white: at the corner 
of the mouth a black fpot*: long hairs above each 
eye* and long whifkers on the upper lip : lower lip, 
throat, belly, and the infide of the legs, whitifh, or 
very pale afh-color : paws white : ears pointed: 
grows to the fize of a heifer of a year old : has vaft 
ftrength in its limbs. 
Inhabits Brafil and Guiana: is a cruel and fierce 
beaft; much dreaded by the Indians ; but happily is 
a fcarce fpecies. 
C. with fhort hair, of a bright ferruginous color: l l 1 ' Cape 
the face marked with black ftripes, tending down¬ 
wards : from the hind part of the head to the tail, 
the back is marked with oblong ftripes of black : 
the fides with very numerous fmall, and round fpots 
of black: belly white : tail long, of a bright tawny 
color, fpotted with black: length from the nofe to 
the tail, near three feet. 
Defcribed from a ikin in a furrier’s fhop in Lon¬ 
don, who thought it came from the Cape of Good 
Hope. 
* On the chin of one of thofe above-mentioned was a round 
black fpot. 
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Maraguao 
