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ANIMAL No. 27, fPhca urfma. Linn.) and the fourth, the animal which 



Lord Anfon calls a Sea~lion, {Fhoca leonina, Linn, leonine feal, 



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Some failors on board the Refolution, affirm- 



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ed they had i^^n a little quadruped at Duiky Bay, in New-Zeeland, 



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of the fhape of a fox or jackal ; but as we never on our frequent 

 excurfions in the woods, met with any thing of this kind, nor 

 have, on the moil careful enquiry, found that any gentleman who 



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had vifited New-Zeeland in the Endeavour, had ever itzn fuch an 

 animal, w^e are of opinion, ( efpecially conlidering the tranfient 



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manner in which, and the time when this was feeh, being in the 

 dawn of the morning) that it muft have been a miftake. As the 

 Southern coafts which we faw, have both thefe feals, and another 



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cogeneric animal, befides the feal with a mane, ( Fhoca jubata ) 



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all in greater number, and fize, I Ihall now mention them together. 

 It is an obfervation of the great naturalift M. de BuiFon, that the 



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large animals in the creation, are all to be confidered as fo many 

 genera (efpeces ifolees) to which we can refer no other fpecies ; and 

 to prove the truth of this, he mentions the inftances of the elephant, 

 rhinoceros, tapir, hippopotamus, and giraffe, which are really io 

 many genera, to which only one fpecies belongs : and adds likewife 



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the cabiai, the beavef, and the lion. 



We fhall mention a circumflance making againil his aifertion : 



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