SUKOTYRO, 
The probability is, that these distinguished 
naturalists entertained doubts of it's reality : 
in which, if we do not ourselves entirely acqui- 
esce, so as to reject the whole account as fabu- 
lous, we perceive sufficient uncertainty to justify 
in others the adoption of such aa opinion. 
Indeed, we are not, ourselves, after all, 
quite free from somewhat similar apprehen« 
sionse 
Yet, there may have been an individual, if 
not a species, resembling in some degree the 
figure given : and, perhaps, the more minute 
researches of enlightened travellers will here- 
after be found to confirm the report of it's ex- 
istence. 
NieuhofF, by whom it was first figured, 
and even noticed, and on whose single autho- 
rity it appears to stand, was a Dutch traveller, 
•who went from Holland to the East Indies 
m or about the year 1563, and continued his 
travels in the oriental regions for a considera- 
ble number of years. On his rctuni to his 
native country, he published his peregrinations, 
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