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2. In Birds there is no Maftication or Gom- 

 minution of Meat in the Mouth.^ but in fuch 

 as are not Carniverous, it is immediately fwal- 

 low'd into the Crop or Craw, or at leaft into a 

 Kind of Anteftomach ( which I have obferv'd in 

 many, efpecially in Pijcivorous Birds) where it is 

 moiftned and mollified by fome proper Juice 

 from the Glandules diftilling in there, and thence 

 transfer 'd into the Gizard or Mufculous Sto- 

 mach, where by the working of the Mufcles 

 compounding the Side of that Ventricle, and 

 by the Affiftance of fmall Pebbles ( which the 

 Creature fwallows for that Purpofe) it is, as it 

 were by Mill-ftones, ground fmall, and fo tranf- 

 mitted to the Guts, to be further attenuated and 

 fubtiliz'd by the fore-mentioned Choler and 

 Pancreatick Juice. 



. 3. In oviparous ^ladrupeds^ as ChamelionSy 

 Lizards^ Frogs, as alfo in all Sorts of SerpentSy 

 there is no Maftication or Comminution of the 

 Meat either in Mouth or Stomach ; but as they 

 fwallow Infects or other Animals whole, fo they 

 avoid their Skins unbroken, having a Heat, or 

 Spirits, powerful enough to extradt the Juice 

 they have Need of, without breaking that which 

 contains it; as the Parijian Academijis leW us. 

 I myfelf cannot warrant the Truth of the Ob- 

 fervation in all. Here, by the by, we take No- 

 tice of the wonderful Dilatability orExtenfive- 

 nefs of the Throats and Gullets of Serpents : I 

 myfelf have taken two entire adult Mice out of 

 the Stomach of an Adder, whofe Neck was not 

 bigger than my little Finger. Thefe Creatures, 

 I fay, draw out the Juice of what they fwallow 



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