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Show H I S T 0 R Y 0 F M E X I C o~ CoMMON RABBET, called by .the Mexicans 'l'ocht/i. CuL, or Peruvian rabbet, a finall quadruped, fimilar to the Indian pig,, of which feveral hiftorians of Peru make mention. CuLPEU, a particular fpecies of large fox in Chili. !-lift. of Chili. DE G u, or dormoufe of Chili. Ibid. SEA-HOG, a particular fpecies of amphibious hog of Chili. .Ibid. FERRET of Chili and Paraguay, called in Guarani J aguarobape. Ibid. and MS. with us. HoNEY-CAT. Thus the Spaniards name a quadruped of the province of Chaco, in South America, fimilar in form to the cat, which lies in watch for birds upon trees, and 'is extremely fond of the honey of bees. MS. with us. Gu AN Q.YE, a fpecies of neld-rat~ of a bluei!h caft, in Chili. Nat. Hift. of Chili. HoRRo, great cercopitbecuJ of ~ito and Mexico, aU black but the neck, which is white. It cries loudly in the woods, and when upright on its feet tneafures the height'of a man. MS. with us. HuEMUL, cloven footed horfe of Chili. Hift. of Chili. ]AGUARoN, in Guarani Jaquaru, an amphibious wild animal of • Paraguay, c~lled by fame natu.ralifts tpe water-tyger. MS. with us. KIKI, quadruped of Chili, of the weaze] kind. Hifr. of Chili. MAJAN, quadruped fimilar to a hog, which has a round· body, and 'its brifiles fticking up. It inhabits Paraguay. MS. with us. Pxsco-CusHILLo, or 'avis · cercopithecu.r, cercopithecu.r of ~ito, which is covered from the neck to the tail with a certain kind of feathers. JVIS. with us, Common HED~E-HOG of Paraguay. MS. with us. RAT, mofi: common in Americ~ before the Spaniards landed there,. and called by the Mexicans f<.yimichi'n. Defcribed by us. The common FJELD-RAT of Mexico and other countries of Amenca. 'f AJE, a quadruped of California, of which mention is made both in ~h~ printed ~ifiory and in manufcripts of that peninfula. The <J' a;e IS unqueihonably the Ibex of Pliny, defcribed by count de Buf ... fon under the na~ne Bouquetin. TAITETU ·H I S T O. R Y 0 F M E X I C 0. .TAITET·tT a quadruped of Paraguay, of the hag kind, the female of which brings forth two young which are u_nited together by means of the navel-flring. MS. by us. WniTE BADGER of New York, defcribed by Bri1fon. THo PEL-LAME, an amphibious quadruped of the fea of Chili, a fpecies of fea-calf, more fimilar frill to the lion than that feen by lord Anfon. Hiftory of Chili .. TLALCo JOTE, in Mexico 'l'lalcojotl, a common quadruped of Mexico, defcribed in book i. Common WHITE FrELD MousE of Mexico. Common FIELD MousE of Mexico and other countries of America. .MousE of Maule, a quadruped of that province, in the kingdom of Chili, fimilar to the Marmot, but twice as large. Hift of Chili. TREFLE, or 'l'rejot'l, a large quadruped of North America, defcribed by Bomare. V 1 s c A c H A of the fields, a quadruped fimilar to the rabbet, but furnilhed with a large tail turned upwards. Acofta and other hiftorians of South America mention it. VIsCACHA of the mountains, a quadruped extremely beautiful, of the fame kind with that of the fields, but different in fpecies. MS. by us. UsNAGUA, or Cercopithecus noelurnu.r of ~ito. MS. &c. I Thefe forty fpecies, added to thofe one hundred and two above mentioned, make one hundred and forty-two fpecies of American quadrupeds. .Jf we add to thofe, horfes, alfes, buUs, lheep, goats,. common hogs, and Guinea-pigs, dogs, cats, and houfe mice, tranfported there fince the conqueft, we fhall have at prefent an hundred and fifty-two·fpecies in America. Count de Buffon,. who in all his Natural Hiftory does not enumerate more than two hundred fpecies of quadrupeds in the countries of the world hitherto difcovered, in his work entitled, EpQtbeJ de Ia Nature, reckons .now three hundred; fo large has the increafe been in the fpace of a few years l But now that they are three hundred,. America, although it does not make more· than a third part of the globe, has notwithftanding almofr one half of the fpecies of its quadrupeds. We repeat almc?fl, becaufe we have omitted 2 all 3ZS DISS'ERT. IV. , .. • / |
