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length about ten inches : is made like a pig, ahd in 
fome parts is called the Hog-Rabbet*. 
Inhabits Brafil , and Guiana: lives in fenny places: 
burrows under ground: grows very fat: is efteemed 
^n Brafil a great delicacy : grunts like a pig : eats 
its meat on the ground, not fitting up, as fome 
others of this genus do : are difcovered by little 
dogs, who point out the places they lie in : the maf~ 
ter digs over them, and when he comes near tranf- 
hxes them with a knife; otherwife they are apt to 
efcape : will bite dreadfully. There is a variety 
quite white, found on the banks of river St. Fran¬ 
cis 
Aguti vel Acuti. Marcgrdve Bra¬ 
fil, 224. Pifo Brafil, 102. 
Atuti chi Agoutis, de Laet. 484. 
Rochefort Antilles , I. 287. 
Mus fylveftris americanus cuni- 
culi magnitudine, pilis et voce 
Porcclli,Aguti. RanJyn. quad. 226. 
Cavia Aguti Klein quad. 50. 
Mus Aguti. M. cauda abbrevia- 
ta, palmis tetrada&ylis, plantis 
trida£tylis,abdomine flavefcente. 
Lin. fyf . So-. 
Cuniculus caudatus, auribus,pl- 
lis ex rufo et fulco mixtis, rigidis 
veilitus. Briffon quads 98. 
L’Agouti de Buffon , viii. 3 75. 
tab. l. 
Small Indian Coney, Browits 
Jamaica, 484. 
Long-nofed Rabbet, Wafer s <voy. 
in Dampier, III. 401. 
Cuniculus omnium vulgatiffimus, 
Aguti vulgo BarrereFranceJEquin. 
153 +• 
179. lONG- 
C. with a long nofe: divided upper lip: fliort 
rounded ears : black eyes : hair hard and fhining; 
on the body mixed with red, brown and black ; on 
the rump, of a bright orange color : belly yellow : 
* Wafer s <voy. in Dampier, III. 401. 
** De Laet. 484. 
t The animal defcribed by Seba under the name of Cuniculus Ame¬ 
ricanus, I. 67. tab. xli. feems the fame with this, notwithftanding 
he lays that the hind feet are tetradadlylous. 
R 3 
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