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There’s another anonymous Beast, as big as a Rabbet, and like a Rat, which carries its Young on its back.

There are two shorts of Curlews also; the largest sort as big as Turkeys, with long Legs and long crooked Bills; the Feathers of their Bodies of a dark Colour, and their Wings black and white; their Flesh black, but pretty good Food.

The Mexican Wolf […] tail long, of the colour of the belly, tinged in the middle with tawny; legs and feet striped with black and ash colour: Sometimes this variety is found white; Pennant’s synop. of quad. P.151. Xoloizcuintli

They had also some little dumb Dogs, with which they beat for Game; but no other kind.

New Mexico is near 50 Leagues N.W. from Old Mexico, where are the richest Silver Mines: There is a kind of Deer so large, that they breed them to draw Carriages, as we do Oxen and Horses.

The Tuza is most destructive to the fields by stealing corn, and to the highways by the number of holes and hollows which it makes in them; for when it cannot, on account of its little sight, find its first hole, it makes another, multiplying by such…

The Green Turtle is so called from the Greenness of its shell: It is a very thin, transparent, and better clouded than the Hawks-bill; but only used in in laying Work, the Shell is so very thin: Their Flesh is the sweetest of all Turtle.

The Hawk-bills is the least, and so denominated for his Mouth resembling that of a Hawk´s Bill: These are but indifferent food, tho’ better than the Logerhead; and it is Shell of these that is so much esteeem’d for making Boxes, Cabinets, Combs, and…

Then he proceeds to describe the several sorts of Tortoises; one of which is called by the Spaniards the Hecatee, that lives for the most part in fresh Water, and seldom comes to Land: These weigh ten or fifteen Pound, have small Legs, flat Feet, and…

Then he proceeds to describe the several sorts of Tortoises; one of which is called by the Spaniards the Hecatee, that lives for the most part in fresh Water, and seldom comes to Land: These weigh ten or fifteen Pound, have small Legs, flat Feet, and…

The Opossum is a small Beast, about the size of a Fox, and grey as a Badger; and is remarkable for its false Belly, in which she preserves her young ones when she is pursued. There is a very particular Description of this Animal in the Philosophical…

Here is a Beast call’d Taquarin, which has a bare Tail, and a bag under its Belly, in which it carries seven or more young ones. It creeps into the Houses in the Night-time to steal Hens.

The Tlacuatzin, which in other countries bears the names of Chincha, Sarigua, and Opossum, has been described by many writers, and is much celebrated on account of the double skin to the belly in the female, which reaches from the beginning of the…

Among other Beasts there’s the Teuthlacokauhqui, or Fortress of the Serpents, which has a Head like an Adder, a thick Belly, glittering Scales, a black Back sprinkled with white Crosses, and poisonous Teeth, whose bite kills in 24 Hours, unless the…

Among the great variety of spiders, we cannot pass over the Tarantola and Casampulga. The name of Tarantola is given very improperly in that country, to a very large spider, the back legs of which are covered with a fine, soft, blackish down, like…

The Bird which they call Cincon, whose plumage is admirable, is less than a Locust, it lives upon Dew, and the smell of Flowers, during the month of October, it fixes itself to a Bough of a Tree, and remains sleeping on it, and does not awake, till…

There is a miraculous Bird called Cincon, less than a May-bug, covered with wonderful Feathers. It feeds, as they say, on Dew and the Smell of Flowers. This is certain, that it fastneth itself to a Bough in October, and there sleeps all Winter.

Ils font de très-jolis tableaux avec les plumes de leur admirable oiseau Cincon

"The animal kingdom of Mexico is not very well known. Of the quadrupeds, some are ancient and some are modern; those are called modern which were transported from the Canaries and Europe into that country in the sixteenth century: such are horses,…

Montezuma had two buildings filled with every kind of arms, richly ornamented with gold and jewels, such as every kind of arms, richly ornamented with gold and jewels, such as shields large and small, clubs like two-handed swords, and lances much…

There’s a Bird call’d Toto Questall, smaller than a Pigeon, with green Feathers. The Indians catch it for its long Tail, but when they have pulled it out, let the Bird fly again, it being a capital Crime to kill one of them, by their Law.

The Pintadelli go quite another Way to work to defend their nests from the wild Cats. They build always in Trees that hang over the Water, and in the utmost Parts of the Boughs; so that a Cat coming there, must expect to tumble into the Water, which…

The Gar-fish is of the shape of the former, but less; [...] They swim very swift, and will leap out of the Water frequently, flying as it were just above the Surface for twenty or thirty Yards, and then wetting their Fins, spring forward again,…

The Indians were as much afraid of the Mastiffs and great Dogs the Spaniards carried over, as of Lions or Tygers; nay more, for their cruel Conquerors hunted this unhappy People in the Woods and Mountains with their Dogs, as they would hunt wild…

They go out a hunting and shooting frequently in Companies a Week or Fortnight for Food, every Man carrying with him his Bow and Arrows, or a Gun, if he can procure one, a Spear, a Hatchet, and a long Knife. Each Man also takes a Dog or two with him…

They hang up their Hammocks between the Trees, and have scarce any other Covering, but a Plantain-leaf, only they make a Fire near their Hammocks; they begin their Hunting again at Sun-rise the next Morning; their Game, the Pecary and Warree, are not…

The Sloth is about the bigness of a large Spaniel; has a round head, small Eyes, and very sharp Teeth and Claws.

There is a Bird called Pecuti, no bigger than a Quail, but hath many Feathers of diverse Colours; it hath a Beak a quarter of a Yard long, and three fingers broad towards the upper Part, which weights more than its whole Body besides; it is crooked…

Both the Pecaree and Warree are wild fierce Creatures, and will engage Man or Beast: The Indians hunt them down with their Dogs, and then shoot or kill them with Spears.

Both the Pecaree and Warree are wild fierce Creatures, and will engage Man or Beast: The Indians hunt them down with their Dogs, and then shoot or kill them with Spears.

If any Person would avoid this Vermin, the same Writer says, must not go bare-foot, are seldom troubled with them, which he supposes proceeds from the hardness of their Skin.

This difficulty is, to ascertain whether the two animals drawn by Recchi, the first under the name of Tlatauhqui-Ocelotl

The Ounce, or Tyger-Cat, seems to be only a small Species of Tygers: They are said to be fiercer that those of a larger Size, and more mischievous; not are these peculiar to America.

There are another sort of insects, that sufficiently try the Patience of the Natives, and are much more mischievous to Strangers, in hot Countries, viz. Muskitoes, or Gnats, which swarm in all Countries that are hot and moist, and will no suffer a…

Here is the Fox-Ape, which has the Body of a Fox, Ears like a Bat, and Feet like Mens Hands; with a bag under the Belly to carry its Young.

The Monkeys of Campeachy, the same Writer relates, are the ugliest he ever saw: They are much larger than a Haré and have great Tails Foot and a half long [...] and if they meet with a single Person, he is in danger of being torn in pieces by them;…

On en a des preuves incontestables par les observations qui on été faites au Mexique , qui est le seul pays où l´on recueille la cochenille;

Il est cependant certain par les informations venues du Mexique , que cet insecte ne subit aucune métamorphose.

De ces Observations l´Auteur passe à l´Article de la Cochenille que nous tirons du Mexique le seul Païs où il s´en fait des recoltes.

Dans la suite de ce Mémoire il est fait mention des Vaisseaux dans lesquels se prépare cette liqueurqui devient de la foie, qui n´est qu´une espèce de vernis, & l´on observe que l´idée de tirer des vernis du corps des Insectes n´est pas nouvelle,…

The Mexicans have breed of white stags in their parks, which they call Stags Royal.

The Mexicans call them Cencontlatolli, or the birds of four hundred tongues, on account of their vast variety of notes and imitative powers.

That this species of animal was unknown in the New World, appears from the terror and astonishment expressed by the Mexicans and Peruvians at the sight of horses and their riders.

The Matti is a Bird somewhat bigger than our Thrushes, and shews no less Cunning and Contrivance to defend its Young. Their Nests are very large, and wide at the Bottom, growing gradually narrower to the Mouth, where the Hole is just big enough for…

The Racoon, according to Damper, are only Species of Rats, but four times as large, and burrow in the Earth Rabbets.

The Mapach of the Mexican is, agreeable to the opinion of Buffon, the same quadruped which is known in Jamaica by the name of Ratton, rattoon, or West-Indian fox. The Mexican one is of the size of a badger, with a black head, a long sharp snout like…

As to the Manatee, Dampier, in his first Volume, describes it in the following manner: He says, it is about the bigness of a Horse, and ten or twelve Foot long: That the Mouth of it is like a Cow's; and it has a great thick Lips: The Eyes no bigger…

*The Fire-fly, or Fulcra Candelaria, are very numerous in the West Indies and other hot climates.

As to Lama’s, or Camel- Sheep, as they are called, from the Form of their Heads and Necks resembling a camel’s.

Upon the Approach of this wing’d army, all People were commanded out into the Fields, with Trumpets, Brass Pans and Kettles, and every thing that would make a Noise, to frighten them away
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