62 Of the Ceraftes; Uromaftix; and Warral. 



Ichfieumon or Thar aoh"?, Rat, according to the Vulgar Name, 

 is not. They have both been defcribed, (fori have often feen 

 them,) Trav. p. 24.8. and the Ichneumon has not only been de- 

 fcribed {Jra'\). p. 24-9.) but likewife figured, {Trav. p. 57^-) 

 The Horns At fp. 2o8.) Hc takcs Noticc, that the Cera fie s has a fort of 



of the Ce- \L ' ' ■' J 



raps. Horns, fomething like thofe of Snails, as if he underftood them 

 to be long and moveable ; whereas they are iliort and inflexi- 

 ble, of the Bignefs of half a Grain of Barley or Rice, to which 

 they bear a near Refemblance. Tliny ', u^lian ' or Trofper 

 ^lpnus\ might lead the Author into this Miftake. The 

 Exwvia of this Viper, which I brought with me from Egypt, 

 retained the Shape and Dimenlion of thefe Horns for many 



Years. 

 The ca-ji- 77^^ ^qiy Ltzarcl, Me a Crocodile y as he calls it, (p 208.) 



fg^rbera or U- '^-'^ . 



romajiix. /hat frequents the l^alls of Alexandr'm, would, m all Probabi- 

 lity, if he had thought fit carefully to compare it with Books 

 of Natural Hiftory, have proved to be the fame with the 

 Bookajhafb of Barhary, the Caudi'verhera or Uromaflix, that 

 is defcribed, Trav. p. xyo. and figured at p. 37^. For there 

 is nothing that occafions greater Confufion in the feveral 

 Branches of Natural Hiftory, than that any Species of Plants 

 or Animals jQiould have new Names and Defcriptions given to 

 them, after that their old ones have already received a fuffi- 

 cient Sanation and Authority. 



The Warral. I havc takcn Notice, ( Trav. p. 419.) that the Lizard, called 

 Warral, would keep Pace with the Dervifhes in their circula- 

 tory Dances, running when they ran, and flopping when they 

 ftopt. But this Author could not perceive, (p. ao8.) and con- 

 cludes it therefore to he a Miftake, that the Warral, (as I 

 fuppofed) could he affe&ed with Mufick. He adds, in another 

 Place, (p. 29.) (to make, as we may Conjecture, his Objedlion 

 the ftronger,) that neither are there any of the dancing Der- 

 vijhes in Egypt. Now, in Anfwer to this, I do not pretend 

 to fhew how or by what Method the Warral was taught thefe 



1 P/i«j fuppofes thefe Horns to be moveable, which I prefume muft be a Miftake, as well 

 as ihac they are four in Number. Ceraftis corpore eminere cornicula, fxpe quadrigemina, 

 quorum motu, reliquo corpore occultato, folicitent ad I'e aves. L. 8. c. 23. 



2 'O Ktfdin( vTiif m (UTU'jts yj^avt tp^H J)Jo' 1^ ioiyji iu< 7« m-)(>m -ja r.ifttTA, i [^ ^v is htiru kmthi. 

 jt.l'uin. Hift. Anim. 1. i. c. j7. 



3 Duo cornicula cochlearum corniculJs fimilia, at dura. Hift. Nar. .^^^/ir. 1. 4. c. 4. 

 where the Figure of the Ceraftes and it's Horns are well expefed. 



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