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Lin.) in the Indies or China with a filiform long 

 tongue, confifting of two femi-cylinders? 



12. What are the peculiar diftin&ions of the 

 true wild peacock ? Are there any white pea- 

 cocks in India, and of a feparate fpecies ? Is 

 the change in plumage obvious in wdld peacocks, 

 or is this the refult of domeftication ? Do white 

 peacocks breed with grey and green ones, and 

 what is the colour of the young breed ? 



13. Is there to be found in the Indian feas a 

 jaculator fifh, fciaena jaculatrix*, different from 

 the chaetodon roltratus, Linn. ? or is the faculty 

 of mooting at infecls with a drop of water peculiar 

 to thefe fifh, or common to any others ? 



14. Has the rajah torpedo, Linn, or the cramp 

 oi* numb-fifh, the fame eleclric qualities as the 

 gymnotus eleclricus ? 



15. As there is yet wanted a good figure of the 

 fea cow (trichechus manatus Lin.) it would be 

 defirable to procure a good drawing of it while 

 alive, to have it difiefted, and to obferve wherein 

 it coincides with, or differs from other animals 

 nearly related to it, as the fea!, dolphin, &c. 



16. The feafons mould be noticed, when differ- 

 ent fpecies of fifh fpawn, and the rivers, bays, 

 fhoals, or fands they refort to for that purpofe ; 

 what age they attain before they fpawn, the food 

 they eat, the age they live to as accurately as pof- 

 fible, the fize they acquire, and the latitude where- 

 in they are generally found ; the method of catch- 



* Philofophical Tranfa&ions, Vol, 54, and Vol, 56. t. 8. p, 

 186. 



