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ANIMAL 

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Htl!ie dircoveries we made, are confined to the Atlantic ocean; and 

 of the remaining srdcr-s we no where found any thing new. 



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The whole number of fpecies in the greater claiTes of animals, 

 K.nz. quadrupeds, cetacea, amphibia, birds, and fiih, which we 

 Caw in the South-Sea, according to the above enumeration, amounts 

 to between 260 and 270, of which about one third are well known. 

 Let us allow, that this number comprehends two thirds of the ani- 

 mals of thofe claiTes, adually refiding in the South-Sea, though 

 we have reafon to think, that the fauna is much more exlenfive, we 

 ihall have upwards of 400 ; and fuppofmg the claiTes of infers and 

 yermes to give only 150 fpecies, the whole fauna of the South-Sea 

 iHes will confifl of at leail 550 fpecies, a prodigious number indeed, 

 .when compared with that of the Flora. 



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Though manyof the birds in New- Zeeland are remarkable for the 

 gay colors of their plumage -, yet we found, when we came to Nor- 



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folk-Iiland, (which, as I have obferved in my account of the plants, 

 contains exad:ly the fame ipecies) that the fame birds appeared there 

 arrayed in far more vivid and burning tints, which muft prove, that 



the -climate has a conliderable influence on colours. There is alfo a 



fpecies 



