Waving what may be faid as to their Preface, and of the 
firlT: iz Species of Animals ; 'viz. two Lyons and a Lyonefs^ a 
Camelion, a Dromedary j a Bear, five Gazellas or Antilopes, a 
C/;^?/ Pard, a Sea-Fox, a Cajlor, an 0//^/*, two C/z;(?/ C^^j, an 
and a C^?^// mondi, of all which, a large Account has 
been already given by Mr. Oldenburg in his Philofophical 
Tranfattions, Numb. 49. & 114. to which I refer the Reader 5 
I fliall proceed to give fome Account of the fixteen remaining 
Species 5 all which were publiflied in the Second Volumn of 
the French Edition, 
The Thirteenuh Species then is the Sea-Calf which, from 
RondeletiiUy they obferve to be of two kinds, the larger from 
the Ocean, the lefler from the Mediterranean, of which fort 
this was. That which is moft extraordinary in it, was the 
Epiglottis, much larger than in other Animals ; its Ventricle 
like an Inteftine: it had all Organs for Secretion oiU rine^ 
and the Kidneys feemed compofed of feveral Glands, each pro- 
vided with a particular Pelvis : it had Lungs like other Amphi- 
iiovs Animals ; and the foramen Ovale giving Paflage to the 
Blood from the Cava to the Aorta, It had tht •Criflalline more 
convex before, which is not common andTeveral Particula- 
rities in the Formation of the E/f favqiiring ^he Opinion of 
the Reception of the vifual S;>^^^w on Retina. . - ; 
The Fourteenth, the Bdrhary C)ow, an Animal fomethmg're- 
fembling a Deer: it had hut two Teats,' iqiJv Ven^ 
other rum ina ting Animals, $ very large yCscPtmy and no \diftin£t 
Lobes iq theii^^r, It was in feveral Parti^^lg^lik^thc:coni- 
mon Cow, 
The Fifteenth is the Cormorant, whqrein the fliortnefs of the 
il^'^jis remarkable, and ftrufture of the fpr fvvimming 
with one Foot while theothcr holds the Pr^y : the Iargenefs # 
the Oefophagus: want of the two Cacurns,i&xxnd m mpft Birds: 
the Kidneys feparatcd from the other J^ifcera by^a pairticular 
Membrane : the Tongue md. Eye ver)f . fmall, this, ^ater-Fowt 
being to feel for its Food undciTitbc .Wa$§r^iracjiettha|i.4 
it from afar. raAmi ' J -^- , ' ' ::.c>j.,iin;ii i 
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