J A PA N. 



Ardea major^ Common Heron, Latham^ v. 83. Br, Zool. ii. 



N-173. 



Tetrao cotur-nix, quail, Latham, iv. 779. Br. Zoo!, i. N' 97. 



Loxia pyrrbula, bulfinch, Latham, iii. 143. Br. Zool. i. N" 116, 



Loxia Oryzivora, Latham, iii. 129. rice bird. Edzv. tab. 41. 

 42. 



Columba oenas, ftock dove, Latham, iv. 604. Br. Zool, i. 

 N° 103." E. 



In refpedt to reptiles, we may inform the reader, that the 

 I'ejludo GrcEca, or common land tortoife, is found here ; fome 

 fea tortoifes of enormous fize ; another fpecies, with a long 

 beak-like nofe, called Doogame, is figured by Kaempfer, tab. xiii» 

 fig. 6. 



A BLACK water lizard, with a red belly and pinnated tail, is 

 defcribed by the fame writer, p. 138. tab. xiii. fig. 2. as exceed- 

 ingly venomous. 



A GREEN fnake, with a flat head and fliarp teeth or fangs, is 

 reputed to give a mortal bite. The name fignifies the length of a 

 day, for people are fuppofed to die of the effect before the fun 

 quits the horizon. Kaempfer^- fays that it is alfo found in Ma- 

 labar. The Boa, or at leaft fome monflrous fnake, an am.phi- 

 bious kind, is found on the mountains and in the waters. 



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Tortoises. 



Lizard, 



SnAKESi- 



The fifhes are very numerous. Whales are frequent, and 

 taken not only by harpooning, as in Greenland, but alfo by nets, 

 in which thofe huge animals are entangled, fo that they become 

 a ready prey to the harpooners. Much oil is extraifled from 

 them ; the flefli is a common food. Of the tendons are made 



*B.\{k.^ti Japan, p. 128. 



ropes 



Fishes. 



