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228 $T e Dr. SHaw’s Defeription of the 
"Ehe quadruped was taken by fome Indian hunters in the upper: 
parts of. Interior Canada, : id fent down to Quebec. It is now in 
THE Ti ai — magni ifea muft be confidered. as by f far the largeft 
ius ound in various parts of 
It is very fhy, and on 
Ly * ts elaftic tube, which on 
a farther res into e ecimens can be ob- 
fn one as contain them. 
A nto tubs of fea-water, may be kept for months in 
. perfect order ; and from one of nem, fo preferved this drawing was 
made. ` : 
"The fpecifi c character may be thus givens 
ee Teporarta m. fimplici albido, tentacul s numerofifimis albo rubroque 
varialis. 
Tubularia with a fimple whitith tube,.and very numerous tenta- 
cula variegated with red and white. 
It is neceffary to obferve; that, in the form of its body, at leaft as 
- far as can be judged from the part reprefented i in the back view of 
the animal, it feems to make an approach to the genus Amphitrite, 
and may be confidered as in fome degree connecting thefe two 
genera - E 
| It may phap be doubted whether fome of the fmaller T1 ‘ 
. fuppofed to be the young =e may not in reality belong to fome 
uses of Aum. | 
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