U SIREN. 



23. Slender. T H AV E examined another, about eight inches long, as flender as a- 

 crow-quil : head finall : tail blunt, and of equal thicknefs : bodf 

 marked from head to tail with lines of pale brown and black ; belly- 

 lead-color : tip of the nofe and tail white. 

 I think its place was Cardina,, 



IV. SIREN. Body and head anguilliform : two feet placed below the neck,. 



24. S'REN. Th.t Mud-Iguana, Ph. Tr. 1766. p. 189. 



Q With anguilliform head and body : eyes minute : noflrils on the 

 fides of the nofe : teeth fliarp, ranged in tranfverfe rows, fit for 

 biting or grinding : three openings to the gills, with three pennated 

 appendages on each fide of the covers : the legs are in form of armsj, 

 placed high on- the breaft, not remote from the throat : each foot has. 

 four divided toes, with a claw to each : the body covered with fmall 

 fcales fijnk in gelatinous matter j color duflcy, but the fides dotted in- 

 lines with white : the tall compreflfed, and, like that of an Eel, fup- 

 plied above and below with a ray-lefs fin. 

 Place. Peculiar to the muddy fwamps o^ South Carolina ; lurking beneath 



the antient trunks of trees that impend over the water : makes a croak-, 

 ing noife : fragile, for if call on the ground it breaks in three or. four 

 pieces. 

 Size. Grows to, the length of thirty-One incheSe 



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