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J I. S C ElFflON A NAT 0 M I^U E iun 
C AME LB ON^ inn CASTOR^ d'un DROME- 
DAIRE^ d'mOURS^ a dpum GAZELLE. A 
Paris \66^. in^\ 
THe -Obfervations of thefe Animals diffeiSed were made 
in the Royall Library ac P^m by fome of the IngeDioas 
Philofophers there. 
Of the Cmdcon ( which they^ fay was an Egj^tian one ^ tJiq/ 
alledging;, thai there are two other forxsj oneof Arabia^ and 
another of Mexico^ they chiefty obferve: FkH that its contra^ 
ry motions of Swelling and Un-fwelling are not made as in other 
animals ;> dilating and prefently after contracting their breaft for. 
Refpiration 5 in a conftant and regular order. ^ fince they have 
feenit fwell for thefpace of above two hours, during which tiaie 
it would indeed ua-fivell a little.but almoft indifcernibly , and 
alfoa littlefwell againe, but with that difference , that the di- 
latation was more fuddain and more vifible^j and that by long, 
andunequall intervals 5 they having alfoobferved it tofubfide 
for a long time, and much longer thanfweird. 
Secondly yt\\2ii the grains in the Gameleons -Skin were divert-^ 
ly pofited 5 and of a blewifl>gray ^ when the aoimall was in the 
fliade movdefs , and had not been toucht a long while5 but that 
the pawes. underneath were wliite-yelowilh , and the fpace be- 
tween the graines , of a pale and y ellowifli red : and that the faid; 
gray 5 colou:^ing him all over when at reft , and remaining on the- 
infideofthe skia^^ when flead, (which feem'd to argue., it 
was the naturall colour } did 5 when expofed to the day-light;,^ 
change in the Sun , fo that all the places of its body ^ ftruck fay 
that light 3- took,inftead of their blewifhgray 3 a browner gray^ 
approaching to a minim 5 but the reft of the skin^ not flione up- 
on by the Sun, changed its gray into divers brighter colours 
which formed Spots half an inch big^of an Ifabella'Coi0ur;,by the 
mixtuxeof the yellow pale in the graines 5 and the light browm 
iathe ground of the skin.: the other skin 5 not flione on by the 
Sm^ and remaining of a gray paler then ordinary , being like' 
cloath mis:t of wool o£ diversxoloars 5 the ground' coatinuing 
