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$■ ix. 



Neqve Plinio ignota fuerunt ejusmodi experimenra decongregandisad 



certumfonitum pi!cibus,qvi H. N. X.yo. harchaber: „Pi(cesqvidemaudi- 



tus nec membra habent nec foramina, audire ramen eos palam eit ; ut- 



s pote cura plaulu congregari fcros ad cibuin confvetudine in qvibusdam 



vivariis fpecletur, & in pifcinis Griaris genera pifcium ad nomen venirc 



, qvosdam (ingulos.,, Inter piures de ejusmodi experimentis teflimo- 



nium ferentes, audiamus adhuc Mavcum Aurel: Severinum, Rondeletium 



(kRobernnn Boykum. Scverinus de rejpirat: pifc. difputat. Prima pag. 



jr/. a. meminit piicium altorum in vivariis Hortorum Principis Ferrarien- 



jis , qvi nantcs late per pifcinam ad ibnum pulfk campana: iblemnis ciba- 



tusmoniti, medium in locum, Sodalium Ccenobitarum more, rapide 



convenerunt; & pag-S>5- non lolum ad ^lianum qvi „tradidit JE- 



„o-yptias TriiTas dclectari cantu, pulfibusqve teftarum concrepitantium iu 



coufonantiam,, fed & ad Rondeletium „Alolas ad tefludinis 



fonos vifas exilire atqve geftire,, & demum ad Andr. Laurentntm 



in opcr. anatom. hiji.qvitft. $. provocat, qvod „pilces optime audire 



noverint illi, qvi mugilum nodturna: interfuerint venationi.,, Iple 



Rondeletius p. 106. extra dubium ponit, qvod plane conflet, audire pifcesj 



hincp. /o7.ha:c habct: „qvomodo permulri pilces cicures facti ad- 



natent adnos vocati, nifiaudiant?,, experimenta mox addens, qvod 



"non procul ab Ambiano in villa qvadam Divi Antonii Trocha nutriatur, 



"qva: vocata ad cibum properet, & de manu capiat; Glani pariter &Cypri- 



1 ni in vivario sdium nobiliflimi Viri a Jarnaco puliato NB. pariete ad ci- 



','bum confugiant. „ Boylei verb hiftoria de piicina in horto propc 



Genuam, cujus pilces ab hortulano, qvem videre neqveunt, certo fono 



convocantur, Philof. Works P. III. p. 41. hsc eft: „There is a pond 



,on the fide of a hill, where the wall being ib high, that men could not 



"look over it, nor be at all feem over it by the fish in the pond; yet that 



"he fan credible peribn) has feveral times obierved thole fish to be called 



"together by the Gardener with a certain noifc he made forthat purpoie; 



"tho' neither this Gentleman, nor one elle, could be difcover^d by thc 



"fish, that readily, obey'd the fummons.,, Qyodfi ha:c teftimonia 



Excellentiflimo R470 innotuiflent , nulli dubitamus , qvin aliqva parte vo- 



luptatem inde lenfiflet, fe non fruflra cautelamde piicibus, puliandacam- 



pana ad efcam convocandis , in appendice ad Willugbbeji H. Pijcium Nat. 



pag. 2$. propofuifle; verba ejus hsec funt: ,„Si campana pone parie- 



tem collocaretur, & nihilominus ea pulfata e latibulis egrefli pifces eo ie 



rcciperent, unde ibnitus exiret, qvin auditu donati efient, nullusadhuc 



"relinqveretur dubitandi locus.,, Ncc filenrio prxtereamus Praedium 



Charlottenthal non procul a Regiomonte, Celfijfumz Ducijfc Holfatiit hor- 



tos Adonidis referens, ubiCyprini lati ad tinnitum campanac portatilis, qva- 



cunqve 



