C A V Y. 
legs almod naked, (lender and black : four toes on 
the fore feet •, three on the hind : tail fhort* and 
naked : dze of a Rabbet. 
Inhabits Brafil , Guiana , &c. grunts like a pig.: 
is very voracious : fits on its hind legs, and holds 
its food with the fore feet when it eats: hides what 
it cannot confume : hops like a hare : goes very fad: 
when purfued, takes fhelter in hollow trees : is ca¬ 
pable of being tamed : when angry, fets up the 
hair on its back, and ilrikes the ground with its 
feet: is eat by the inhabitants of South America. 
i8o„ Olive. Cuniculus minor caudatus, oli- 303. 
vaceus, Akouchy. Barr ere France L’Akouchi, de Bujfon, xv. 1 j;8. 
AC quin. 153. Des Marcbais, III. 
A fpecies of Aguti , lefs than the former, and of an 
olive color : which is the whole account left us by 
M. Barrere. Des Marcbais fays it is more delicate 
food than the other. 
Inhabits Guiana . 
1 Si. Javan. J ava hare Catejby Carolina App. fefcens, fufco admixto. Brijon 
tab. xv iii. quad. 98. 
Cavia javenfis. Klein quad. 50. Mus leporinus Lin.JyJl. 80. 
> Cuniculus caudatus auritus, ru- 
C. with a (lender fmall head : prominent naked 
ears, rounded at the tops : color of the upper part 
of the body reddifh : bread and belly v/hite : legs 
long : hind parts large : four toes on the fore feet j 
three on the hind : tail Ihort: fize of a hare. 
Inhabits Java and Sumatra . 
Cavia 
