as before.The Sun ceafing to fliine^^the firft gray returned by little 
and little.and being then toucht by one of the company ^there ap- 
peared prefently many very black fpots on hisftiouldiers and fore- 
feet > which hapn'd not, when he was handled by thofe that 
cook care of him. Being wrapp'd in white linnenfor 2, or 3. mi- 
m^^s , he was taken out whitifli 5 and having kept this colour a 
Vvhile, it vaniflit infcnfibly: which Experience refutes thofe , 
iyhogive out, that the Cameleon takes all colors but white. 
Having put him on divers things of feveral colours, and wrapt 
him up in them,hc affumed none of their colors^but the white, 
neither took he this , but the firft time of the trials. 
Thirdly , the ftru^ure and motion of his Eyes^turning two dif- 
ferentways at one and the fame time 5 which yet is not true of 
the Cameleons of Mexico. Where 'tis obferv'd, that the necelli- 
ty, impos'd by nature on all other animals to move both their 
Eyes together the fame way , is not caufed by the conjunftion 
of the Optick nerves, becaufc that alfo is found in the Came- 
leon it felf. 
fourthly , his way of taking hold of the fmall branches of 
Trees, like that of a P arret ^ who puts two of his claws before 
and two behind , whereas other Birds al wayes put three before , 
and one behind. 
Fifthly, his having no Spleen-, a very little Heart, and ex- 
ceeding little Brain, in which appeared no mark at all of any 
fence for Hearing, this animall neither receiving nor giving a- 
ny found. 
Sixtlj^ his Tonguebeing furnilht with and faftned toalong 
troiTip , ferving to lanch it out, for the taking of flyes, on 
which he fee^s , and not on Air alone 5 the Obfervers having 
found many fly^s in his ftomach aud Guts > and taken notice alfo, 
that this Cameleon , they difcourfeof, voided divers ftones of 
the bignefs of a pea , which he had not fwallowed , but bred in 
hisgutts, feeing one of them , being difTolved in diftilled vine- 
gar , inclosed the head of a fly. 
By which Obfervations it appears, chat though Oratm have 
\oi\ thofe pretty fubjeds to excrcife their Eloquence upon , con- 
cerning the Wot>ders of the food, and of the Change of Co- 
lours in Camrfeons^ yet Philofephers doQ now m^Qt with 
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