3 86 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



egg. When taken off, the matter dries, and is reducible 

 to a powder, which is oily, of a (harp bitter tafte, and 

 a ftrong difagreeable fmell. — Thefe bags are found indif- 

 ferently in males and females, and were formerly fup- 

 pofed to be the animal's tefticles ; which, when purfued, 

 it was faid to bite off, and by that means efcape with its 

 life. 



