VOL. XTI.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 3gi 



difficulty of procuring copies of the French edition, few of the learned haying 

 ever seen the book, though printed some years since, was no small inducement 

 to this translation. 



Of the first 12 species of animals, viz. two lions and a lioness, a camelion, a 

 dromedary, a bear, five gazellas or antelopes, a pard cat, a sea fox, a castor, 

 an otter, two civet cats, an elk, and a coati mondi, a large account has been 

 already given by Mr. Oldenburg, in the Philosophical Transactions, N° 49 and 

 124.* Some account of the 16 remaining species, all published in the 2d vol. 

 of the French edition, are as follows: 



The 13th species then is the sea calf, which is of two kinds, the larger from 

 the ocean, the lesser from the Mediterranean, of which sort this was. The 

 epiglottis was much larger than in other animals; its ventricle like an intestine; 

 it had all the organs for secretion of urine, and the kidneys seemed composed 

 of several glands, each provided with a particular pelvis; it had lungs like other 

 amphibious animals, and the foramen ovale giving passage to the blood from 

 the cava to the aorta; the crystalline more convex before than is common; and 

 several particularities in the formation of the eye, favouring the opinion of the 

 reception of the visual species on the retina. 



The 14th, the Barbary cow, an animal something resembling a deer, it had 

 but two teats, four ventricles, like other ruminating animals, a very large cae- 

 cum, and no distinct lobes in the liver. It was in several particulars like the 

 common cow. 



The 15th is the cormorant, wherein the shortness of the legs is remarkable 

 and structure of the feet, for swimming with one foot, while the other holds 

 the prey ; the largeness of the oesophagus, want of the two caecums, found in 

 most birds ; the kidneys separated from the other viscera by a particular mem- 

 brane, the tongue and eye very small, this water fowl being to feel for its food 

 .under water, rather than discover it from afar. 



The 16th, the chamois or rupicapra, in whose ventricle a ball was found, 

 whence they take occasion to discourse of the balls found in the stomachs of 

 creatures, as cows, horses, &c. and observe that they are composed of lignous 

 fibres and not hair, as is usually thought; besides several other observables 

 the cornua uteri were very long and winding ; the heart had a callous apo- 

 pjiysis, &c. 



The 17th and 18th are the porcupine and hedgehog, a comparison being 

 made between these two animals. They observe the external ear of the porcu- 

 pine to be like a man's ; the end of the tongue armed as it were with teeth ; the 



* Vol. i. p. 360, and vol. ii. p. 289, of tbU Abridgment 



