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ZOOLOGY. 





giniana Shaw) lives chiefly in trees. Lawson says that 

 " the female doubtless breeds her young at her teats, for 1 

 have seen them stick fast thereto when they have been no 



bigger than a small rasberry and seemingly inanimate. She 

 has a paunch, or false belly, wherein she carries her young 

 after they are from those teats, till they can shift for 



