_Aguti_, or _Acuti_ (P. 102), is a red-haired animal about the size of a pig a month old. The flesh is very good to eat. There is another species of the same animal, called _Tapeti_. _Rat._ The woods abound with a kind of rat of the size of a squirrel, its flesh is very delicate. _Paca_ (P. 101, M. 224). This animal is as large as a middle-sized dog. The flesh tastes like veal. _Jacaré_ (P. 282, M. 242). A small species of _Cayman_. The Brazilians are particularly fond of eating them. _Teiuguacu_, or _Teju_ (P. 283, M. 273). A grey lizard, four or five feet long. _Léry_, who has eaten them, says, that when properly dressed, they are as tender, as white, and have as good a taste as the wing of a capon. It is necessary to observe that the Brazilians not only eat lizards, and some kind of serpents, but also large toads, broiled in the Buccaneer fashion, with the heads and entrails. _Domestic Fowls used as Food._ _Turkeys._ The Brazilians bred them formerly more for their feathers, particularly the white ones, than for the purpose of eating them. They reproached the Europeans with gluttony for eating their eggs. _Ducks_, of which there are various species; but the Brazilians never eat them, from an idea that the slow manner of walking of these birds, might make those who fed upon them heavy, and unable to run with a proper degree of activity. For the same reason they refrained from eating all animals which moved slowly; and even some sorts of fish, particularly the skate, which does not swim so fast as others. _Nota._ European fowls, transported to the Brazils, live very well in that climate, though growing larger than in their own country, their taste gets less delicate; on the contrary, geese and ducks become still finer. _Wild Fowl used as Food._ _Jacupema_ (P. 81, M. 198). A species of pheasant, of which there are three kinds. The plumage of every one of these birds is black and grey; the only difference between them is in the size. The Brazilians declare that it is impossible for any country to produce any thing more delicate than the flesh of these birds. _Mutu-Mitu_ (P. 80, M. 194) is excellent to eat, but not so common as the _Jacupema_. M. le comte de Buffon classes it amongst the _Hocco_. _Jambu_, (P. 81. M. 192). A species of partridge as large as our geese. _Mangouris_, _Pegassous_, _Pecacaous_ (_Hist. Gen. Voy._). These three birds may be also classed amongst the partridges. They are of different sizes; the first is the size of a common partridge, the second of a wood-pigeon, and the third of a turtle dove. _Fish used as Food._ _Manatus_ (_Hist. Gen. Voy._), is particularly good in Brazil. _Skate_. Those in the rivers _Janeiro_ and _Marevescona_, which Thévet names _Inevouana_, are of a much larger size than ours. The entrails are equally good with the rest of the fish. _Acarapeba_ (P. 69 and 161) is a large flat fish, which _Léry_ declares to be wonderfully delicate and fine. He gives it the name of _Acarapep_.