Royal Society. ^5^ 
hair, formed into the /liape and figure of the ftomach, fome- 
what like an half-moon, covered with a flmiy, iniipid fub- 
Itance, which ferved the better to glue thele hairs together j 
fuch hairy '^lophl are frequently to btr met with in the ftomachs 
of oxen 5 and butchers obferve, that they chiefly meet with 
them in the winter-feafon, after the hair begins to ihed, and 
the cattle feed upcm hay, or dry meat^ but after the fpring, 
and in fummer, they more rarely find them, as if the new 
gra{s, which purges them, did contribute to difTolve thefe 
^ophi likewife: But our animal is carnivorous, and moil rapa- 
cious of the winged kind, and where it cannot find its prey on 
the land, it will hunt for it in the trees, climbing up thenn 
very nimbly 5 and if the tender bough cannot bear the weight 
of its body, by twilling its tail about the twig, ir can hang 
thereby, and flretch itfelf the farther, to obtain its dehred 
food, or rob a nefi:5 nay, even by this means it can Hy, or pafd# 
from one tree to another 5 for hanging thus by the tail, and 
waving and fwinging its body like a ^enduhw}^ it can fling 
itlelf into the boughs of a neighbouring tree, where its tail is 
fure to take fail hold of the firfl bough it lights on, if othcrwifc 
it miflfes its footing, and his hinder feet being made like hands, 
and furnifhed with a thumb, it c^n the more readily raifc its 
body up by them 3 but tho' thefe animals are carnivorous, yet 
when need drives them, they can take up with other food 5 for 
this fubje(5l wouid eat any thing brought him from the table r 
The Mefentery is that membranous part, which binds the 
inteftines together, and fixes their fituation, and gives them 
the order of their figure 5 the inteftines are not juft faftened to 
the periphery, or outward circumference of the jMefetitery, but 
its external membrane on both fides is entirely projefled, and 
continued over the whole canal, or du6l of the guts, and forms 
their external or common membrane; fothat often, by feparat- 
ing this external membrane from the mufcular one that lies 
under it, the length of the guts may be extracted, leaving only 
the common membrane, as it is continued from that of the 
Mefentery-t which would be inflated, as if the guts remained 
there entire ; now here is obfervable, that remarkable diffe- 
rence from many other animals, that we cannot but make two 
Mefemeries ; one peculiar to the fmall guts, the other to the 
great ones; the former Dr. I'yfon cdWs^Mefenterium minorumy 
and the latter, Mefenterium majorum Litefiinorum 5 for as the 
2)uoclenum defcended from the flomach, it ran under the Colony 
juft where it is joined to the Ci^cum, towards the middle of the 
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