AXGU1NE 



where smooth and even ; the head of a somewhat 

 depressed form, with a lengthened, obtuse, and 

 widish snout, and lias no external eyes : the mouth 

 is moderately wide, and furnished with a row of 

 very minute teeth : the legs are about three quar- 

 ters of an inch in length ; the fore legs being situ- 

 ated almost immediately behind the branchial fins, 

 and the feet furnished with three toes, without 

 any appearance of claws: the hind legs are situ- 

 ated at a great distance backwards, towards the 

 commencement of the tail, and are of the same 

 appearance with the fore legs, but the feet have 

 only two toes, which, like those of the fore feet, 

 are destitute of claws. The motions of the animal, 

 when taken out of the water, are, in general, ex- 

 tremely slow and languid ; as is also the case when 

 kept in a vessel of water ; but when in its native 

 lake, it is sometimes observed to swim pretty 

 briskly, waving its body in a serpentine direction, 

 in the manner of a leech. 



The Anguine Siren is well figured by Laurenti, 

 who seems to have been its first describes in his 

 work entitled Specimen Mcdicum, ejhibeiis fyiwpxin 

 Rcptilium, under the title of Proteus Anguinus. 



With respect to its real nature, Zoologists are 

 not yet agreed : some imagining it to be the Larva 

 of some species of Lizard, whose gradations have 

 not been fully ascertained, while others, with per- 

 haps equal probability, suppose it a complei 

 perfect animal. 



Its anatomy is amply detailed by Dr. Schreibers, 



