Plinies Naturall Hiftorie. 



A contrariwifejitbringcth Chameleons; although India hath them ordinarily in greater hutri- 

 ber.In fhape and quantitie it is made like a Lifard^biit that it ftandeth higher and ftreightcr than' 

 the Lifards do, upon his legges. The fides^flankcsjand belliCjmeet togitherjas in fiilies : it hath 

 likewife fharpc pricklcs^bearing out upon the backe as they have : fnouted it is/or the bigneffe 

 not unlike to a fwine,with a very long taile thin and pointed at the endjvvinding round and en- 

 tangled like to vipers : hooked clawesit hath^and goeth flowjas doth the tortoiTe : his bodic and 

 skin is rough ancl skalic. as the crocodiles : his eyes ftanding hollow within his head, and thofti 

 be exceeding great, oncneere unto the other with a veriefmall portion bctweene, of the fame' 

 colour that the reft of the bodie is : he is alwaics open eyedjand never cloieth them : hee lookcth 

 about him not by mooving the ball of his eyc^but by turning thq^hole bodie thereof : hee ga- 

 B peth evermore aloft into the aire, and is the onely creature alive that fecdeth neither of meat 

 nor drinke^but hath his nouri(hment of aire oncly : about wild fig-trees hee is fell and daunge- 

 rous, otherwife harmelefle.But his colour naturally is very ftraunge and wonderfull/or ever and 



)f anon hechaungeihitjas well in his cye,asiaile and whole bodie befidcs: and looke what colour 

 he toucheth next, the fame alwaies he refcmbleth,unlefle it be red and white. When he is dead, 

 he looketh pale and wan : very litde flefh he hath in head and chawes, and about the joy nt where 

 histaileisgraffedtohisrumpe;butinallthebodiebe{ides,none at all. All his blood is in his 

 h€art,and about his eyes: among other his bowels, he is without a (plcne . Hidden hee ly eth all 



P winter longjas Lifards doe. 



Q Chap, xxxiiii. 



"^Of theBuffe^orTarandusttheLjcaortyavdtheThos, 



IN Scythia there is a beaft called Tarandus, which chaungcth likewife colour as the Chame- 

 leon .-and no other creatuie bearing hairedoththe fame, unleffeitbethe Lycaon of India, 

 which (by report) hath a maned necke. As for the Thocs (which are a kind of wolves fome- 

 what longer than the other common wolves, and Ihorter legged, quicke and fwiftin leaping, 

 living altogether of the venifon that they huntand take,without doing any harme at all to men) 

 theymay befaidjnotfo much to chaungctheirhew, as their habite and apparell:for all winter 

 time they be fhag-haired,but in funimetbarc and naked. The Tarandus is as biggeasanoxe, 

 D with an head not unlike to a ftaggesjbut that it is greater, namely, carrying braunchedhornes : 

 cloven hoofed, and his haire as deepeas istheBeares . The hide of his backe is fo tough and 

 hardjthat thereof they make breft-plates.He taketh the colour of all ttees, flirubs, plants,flow- 

 ers, and places wherein he lieth when he retireth for feare 5 and therefore feldome is he caughrJ 

 But when heUft to looke like himfelfe andbe in his ownecolourjhe refembleth an Afle.To con- 

 clude, fhaunge it is that the bare bodie of a beaft fhould alter into fo many colours: but much 

 morefttaungcitis and wondeifuil, that the haire alfb fhould fbchaunge. 



Chap, xxxv, 

 of tkVorkpn, 



THePorkpens come out of India and Affricke : a kind of Vrchinor Hedgehog they bcs 

 armed with pricks theybe both 5 but the Porkpen hath the longer fharpe pointed quilks, 

 and thofe,when he ftretcheth his skin,he fendeth and fhooteth from himiwhen the hounds 

 pr^fethhard upon him, hee flycth from their mouthfSj and then taketh vantage to launceac 

 them fomcwhat farther off.In the winter he lyeih hidden,as the nature is of many beafts to doe, 

 and the Beares above the reft. 



Chap, xxxvi, 

 J^O/ the Beares y And how they breed andhringforth their youngs 



^T^Hey ingenderinthc beginning of winter, iioi after the common manner of other four- 

 \ footed bcafts,but lying both along, clafping and embracing one another: then theygoc 

 apa rt into their denncs and caves, where the flie« bear« thirtie daies after is difcharged of 

 her burden^and Biingeth forth commonly five whelptp at a time. At the firft, they fccmt to be a 

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