LECTURE XL 1ST 



by the bill ; in a short time after, it commeth to 

 full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it 

 gathereth feathers, and groweth to fovvle bigger 

 than a mallard, and less than a goose, having 

 black legges and bill or beake, and feathers black 

 and white, spotted in such a manner as is our 

 Magpie, called in some places a Pie-Annat, which 

 the people of Lancashire call by no other name 

 than a tree-goose; which place and all those parts 

 adjoining do so much abound with, that one of the 

 best is to be bought for threepence. For the truth 

 hereof if any do doubt, may it please them to re- 

 paire unto me, and I will satisfy them by the tes- 

 timony of good witnesses." 



The species of Lepas furnished with the coria- 

 ceous tube are pretty numerous, several new ones 

 having been of late years discovered : these ani- 

 mals sometimes attach themselves to animated as 

 well as to inanimate bodies, and are frequently 

 seen on turtles and other marine animals. In the 

 Museum of the late Mr. Hunter is an instance of 

 a species of Sea-Snake, the Anguis platura of Lin- 

 nseus (Hydrus bicolor) of more modern naturalists, 

 which has a groupe of small Lepades affixed to one 

 side of its tail, 



