ANGUINE SIREN". Gil 



in the 91st volume of the Philosophical Transac- 

 tions. The chief abbreviated particulars are the 

 following : 



The Ei/es are most extremely small, subcu- 

 taneous, and situated on each side the base of the 

 rostrum or upper jaw, just before the bulging or 

 projecting parts. 



The Tongue is large and fleshy ; loose at the 

 point, but attached by the root to the lower jaw. 



The Stomach is very large, and of an almost co- 

 riaceous nature. 



The Liver is extremely large and long ; appear- 

 ing, at first view, to fill the whole cavity of tlie 

 abdomen, so as nearly to hide the other viscera. 



The Lungs consist of a pair of very long tabu- 

 lar canals or processes, each terminating in an ob- 

 long simple bladder which is not divided inter- 

 nally into cellular spaces, but merely separated 

 into two cavities by an intermediate membrane^ 

 a communication between the two sides of the 

 bladder being left by means of a large semilunar 

 opening at the upper end. 



The Bones seem to be of the same conformation 

 and nature as in the Salamander : no ribs or ster- 

 num ; but bones in the tail. 



This animal appears evidently to be of a preda- 

 cious nature ; feeding on the smaller kind of 

 aqnatic animals ; since one which M^as kept alive 

 for some days in a vessel of water, was observed to 

 discharge from its stomach several small shells of 

 the genus Helix, and in the stomach of one which 

 Dr. Schreibers dissected were found the head arrd 



