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„etat au fond de certaines eaux profondes , font des relations fi mal at- 

 „teftees & d'une Absvrdite' Jifrappante, qtfellene merite pas, aiCon 

 „y fafe attention,, 



Etapud Edwardum (nat. hift. of Birds, preface p. XIII.) hsec Ie- 

 guntur : 



„Many wquld meke Sleepers of them, and fay, they retire to ho- 

 „Ies under Qpound, and in hollow Trees - and that they are fo fat, that 

 „they cannot fly tar at the Times they difappear, which Fatnefs i take 

 „rather for a providential provifion, to enable them to take a flight of 

 „many Days without being quite exhaufted and fpent. A farthe Rai- 

 fon - that no fuch Sleeping Birds kave at anytime by found, and all 

 „the reports of thefe things are fo uncertain, that no fober Man can at 

 „all depend on them. „ 



Certe, dura utraque fententia ornamento non eft vhis de hiftoria 

 naturali non ultimo loco bene meritis. Optimus Catesbejus non nega- 

 vit infecla animalia efle aeque ac volucres, inter quas & aves ; non negat 

 infecta volitantia. Jam vero infecta dormitoria fua habere non abfurde 

 fcribit, e quibus lemargia correpta, a Certhia, a Sitta avibus, extrahantur 

 ( des injecles logez dans leurs dormitoires d'hyver, & dans un etat engour- 

 di Ordo av. §. 34. no. III ). Qdd> quadb, obflaret, quin & aves longam 

 noclem dormirent ? $o. Cajus vult, & Pufinum, avem marinam & gre- 

 o-alem, fua habere latitandi tempora , ut Cuculum & Hirundinem ra- 

 rior. p. 98 ne dicam de quadrupedibus ; de Marmota &c. Invito vul- 

 tu riderem migrationem Philomek in Africam, fed me non decet, com- 

 movere cachinnos irridentium, etfi neutiquam obliger, aliorum erro- 

 neas fequi opiniones ; per me tamen licebit , fi quis crederet aves in 

 Lunam migratorias vel in incognitam nobis infulam, aut aeream, atmo- 

 fphseram noftram fuperantem ; Mijcell. Harlejan. Vol. II. f. jjg. Ed- 

 ward. II. V. 114. Non nifi animofus hifloriam nonnullorum Papilionum 

 diurnorum, Mufcarum, Scarabeolorum & plurium infectorum rideret, 

 quse in hypocauftis hyeme non calefaciendis ante feneftras emortua jacent, 

 nec tamen vel a fece civitatis vita privata cfle creduntur, quin potius ap- 

 propinquante verc vita rurfus valere incipiant, refurgant, & ad volatum 

 ie accingant. Deficientibus Mufcis hyeme Aranei non manducant, non 

 telam faciunt, fed faturate dormiunt ; ut iterum Angues noftrates aliaque 

 animalia taceamus. Sic & arbores dormire dicuntur, prout hortulani 

 loquuntur, qui oculos arborum dormientes (fcfjfaffenfcC Slugftl) fingunt, 

 usque dum iancli phyfici & miraculofi Fabianus & Sebaftianus per mo- 



tum 



