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to me in the evening, was dying for want of 

 proper food. While swimming in a bowl of water 

 placed in the cage in which it had been confined 

 during the day, it spouted liquid from its nostrils, 

 through the tube in the manner described as 

 peculiar to that genus." 



The above description, and the preserved speci- 

 men from which our figure was taken, w^ere 

 obligingly furnished for the use of this work, by 

 William Yarrell, Esq., of London. 





