Buffon's Natural History. Volume 07 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c

The vampyre[Y] is smaller than the rougette, which is itself smaller than the roussette. The first, when it flies, seems to be of the size of a pigeon, the second of a raven, an...

The animals described and dissected by the Academy of Sciences, under the name of Tigers, and that described by Caius, in Gesner, under the name of Uncia, are of the same specie...

The civet has nothing in common with the hyæna but the glandular pouch, under the tail, and the mane along the neck and back-bone. It differs from the hyæna in figure and size,...

From these, and many other attestations, we may conclude, that the most common size of the elephant is from ten to eleven feet; that those of thirteen or fourteen feet are very...

M. de la Borde has also transmitted several particulars; he says, "There are two species of ant-eaters which inhabit the woods of Guiana, the one larger than the other; they run...

Of the Great Flying Squirrel M. de Vosmaër remarks, "that it has a great affinity to the smaller species described by M. de Buffon; they both have the same kind of membranes, wi...

We should be inclined to doubt this fact, were it possible, but naturalists, historians, and travellers, all agree, that the elephants never produce in a domestic state. The kin...

If this species of the goschis ever existed, especially as described by Father Charlevoix, why have other authors never mentioned it? why does it no longer exist? or if in exist...

Having thus collected the different facts relative to the species, let us now examine minutely the faculties of the individual; his senses, motion, size, strength, address, saga...

The gentlemen of the Academy of Sciences have given a very accurate description of the Lynx, and have discussed with equal ingenuity and erudition the circumstances and names re...

Such, with a few exceptions, are all the animals common to the old and new world; and from this number, inconsiderable as it is, we ought, perhaps, to deduct one third, whose sp...

M. de Vosmaër, to his description of the flying squirrel, has added a note, in which he says, "the _coes-coes_ is the _bosch_ of the East Indies, the _philandre_ of Seba, and th...

The prodigious Mammoth, whose enormous bones I have often viewed with astonishment, and which were at least six times bigger than those of the largest elephant, exists no longer...

Our opossum, described by Tyson, is the same animal as the oriental philandre of Seba, since of all the animals which Seba has described, and to which he gave the name of philan...

We mention ibis animal merely as a supplement to the description we have given of the wolf, for there can be little doubt of his belonging to the same species. We have already s...

Mr. Grew first described this animal from a skin preserved in the cabinet of the Royal Society in London. All the other armadillos have two bucklers, one on the shoulders, and t...

After the elephant the Rhinoceros (_fig. 124._) is the most powerful of quadrupeds; he is at least twelve feet in length, from the extremity of the snout to the tail; six or sev...

_Of Tigers_ 1 _Animals of the Old Continent_ 4 _Animals of the New World_ 24 _Animals common to both Continents_ 33 _The Tiger_ 57 _The Panther, Ounce, and Leopard_ 68 _The Jagu...