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but that from the little height of the body the idea derived fix 

 body is very slender, and the diameter of " corps tres-lonpf " 

 priate. Valenciennes probably did not take this fact into 

 observed, in his description of l y nu<b>this }>nnctt<J(tfns, that the 1 

 Vimrlorfus catus. 



We have thus united many nominal species. In conside 

 nesque as identical, we have verv little hesitation. We hn> 

 those of Lesueur and Valenciennes, and it mi-ht, perhaps, fa 

 visionally retain them as distinct. The other course has. hov 

 no other species at all answering to their descriptions can be I 



