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overturn the fuppofition, and only to be authenticated when 

 other fpecimens fhall have come under the eye of the well-in- 

 formed naturalift *. 



* Mr. Pennant obferves, with great propriety, the probability of it* being a 

 variety of the American fpecies. — Ar8, Zool. 



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