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jabirugiiacu. It feems to be of the crane kind, 
or at leaft nearly approaching to that clafs. Lin- 
njEus makes it a diftinft genus, under the appel- 
lation of myderia. The beak is large, long, and 
acute ; both the mandibles bend upwards, the up- 
per one being triangular; the noftrils are linear; 
and the mouth is deftitute of a tongue. The feet 
are furnifhed with four toes. The top of the head 
is adorned with a kind of bony crown, of a mixed 
greyifh and whitifh colour; the neck is of confi- 
derable length ; and both that and the head are 
deftitute of feathers, being covered only with a 
naked, fquamofe flcin. 
This bird is about the fize of the ftork-, and it's 
flefh is efteemed very delicate. It has a fhort 
black tail; but the reft of the plumage is white, 
except that the long wing-feathers are blackifti, 
with a purplifti glofs. 
SCUTUM. A genus of echini marini: the 
charaders of which are; that the ftiell is of an ir- 
regular figure, reprefenting a ihield on the lower 
part; and having the fliape of a five-leaved flower 
on the fuperficies. The mouth is fituated in the 
middle of the bafe ; and the aperture for the anus 
ftt the edge. 
Two kinds of echini belong to this genus, the 
angular and the oval. There are only two known 
fpecies of thofe with angular fcuta; but of thofe 
with oval there are three. 
SCYLL^A. A genus of the mollufca cLafs 
of worms in the Linnsean fyftem. The charac- 
ters are thefe : the body is oblong and comprefied ; 
the back longitudinally canaliculated ; the mouth 
is a round opening; and there are three pair of 
tentacula, like arms, under the body. 
There is only one known fpecies, called by 
Ibme the fea-hare. 
SCYMNUS. An appellation u^ed bv ^Han, 
Appian, and fome other Greek writers, for the 
Sculion of Ariftotle. Artedi makes this a fpecies 
of fqualus, diftinguifhed by the pinna ani placed 
in the middle between the anus and the tail It is 
alfo thecatulus vulgaris and catulus major of au- 
thors. 
SCYTALE. A fpecies of ferpent mentioned 
by the ancients ; which they defcribed as long and 
thin, and of fo equal a thicknefs from the head to 
the tail, that the latter could not be eafily diftin- 
guiftjed. 
Linn^us mentions two animals under this ap- 
pellation: one a fpecies of anguis, or ihakc; and 
the other a kind of boa. 
SEA-BEAR; the Phoca Urfina of LinnjEus; 
called alfo the fea-cat; and by Pennant the urfine 
feal. An animal pretty common round the ides 
fcattered between Kamtfchatka and America, 
where they retire in order to copulate; but at other 
times feek the Afiatic and American fhores. They 
lead an indolent gregarious life; and are remark- 
able for their attachment to their young. 
SEA-BREAM. An Englifh appellation for 
the fi(h more generally denominated the pagrus 
and phagrus. According to the Artedian fyftem, 
it is a fpecies of fparus, diftinguifhed by the name 
of the red fparus, with the {km carried into a 
finus at the roots of the dorfal fins and the pinna 
ani. 
SEA-CALF; the Phoca Vitulina of Linnseus. 
An appellation commonly given to the feal. See 
Seal. 
SEA-COW ; the Trichechus Manatus of Lin- 
niEus. An animal found in various parts of the 
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world, in high northern latitudes. Some of 
them are faid to meafure twenty feet in length;, 
and to weigh eight thoufand pounds. It has 
thick lips; very f nail eyes; two fmall orifices in- 
ftead of ears; a Ihort neck, thicker than the head| 
and from the ftioulders, the thickeft part of the 
body, the animal grows gradually flender towards 
the tail, which lies horizontally, being broad and 
thick in the middle, and thinner towards the 
edges. The feet are placed at the (houlders. 
Beneath the (bins there are bones for five com- 
pleat toes; and externally there are three or four 
nails, fiat and rounded. Near the bafe of each foot 
of the female there is a tear. The (km is very 
thick and hard, having a few hairs fcattered over 
it; whence the name of Trichechus, compofedof 
Thrix, Hair; and Ichthos, a Fifli. See Mana- 
tus. 
SEA-CROW. A provincial appellation for 
the bird more ufually denominated the pewit. 
SEA-DEVIL; the Rana Pifcatrix, or Lophius 
Pifcatorius of Linnseus. A remarkable fpecies of 
fi(h, of a middle nature between the cartilaginous 
and bony kinds. Itrefembles the tadpole in it's 
Ihape: the head is extremely bulky, and of a cir- 
cular figure; the apmur^^ of the mouth is un- 
ufually large; the back is flat, and of a blueifh 
geeen colour mottled with afew white fn3':s; in the 
upper parr of the head, at a fmal! dift un . e from the 
any,le of the upper jaw, there are two briftles ; and 
over the upper jaw, on each fide, are placed two 
fharp thorns. Tue dorfal fin confifts of ten rays; 
in the under part of the body, exaftlv beiow the 
.throat, there :.<xc two fins, compofed of live rays 
or fingers ; and there are two others on the edge 
of the body, the tips of which, as well as of the. 
tail, are black. 
This fifh derives it's prefent name from it's hi- 
deous apDearance. See Angler. 
SEA-DRAGON. See Draco Marinus. 
SEA- EAGLE. A fpecies of the raia, with 
a fmooth body, and long ferrated Ipine on a finny 
tail. 
Sea-Eagle is alfo a name by which fome aii- 
thors exprefs the ofprey. 
SEA-EFL. See Eel. 
SEA-EGG. An appellation by which Ibme 
naturalift-s exprefs the roundifli centronia, with 
crooked fpines; a genus of the echinus marinus. 
SKA-FOX. An Englifh name for a fifh of 
the fqualus kind, called alfo the fea-ape; both 
which .appellations it receives from the extreme 
length of it's tail in proportion to it's body, 
The old Greek ichthyologifts have called this 
fifh alopoecia; and later writers, vulpes marina, 
and fimia m?.rina. 
SEA-GUDGEON. An Englilh appellation 
for the fifh called alfo gobius niger, and gobius 
marinus. Artedi forms a genus of gobii, of 
which he confiders this as a genuine fpecies. See 
Goby, Black. 
SEA-HARE. A fpecies of fcyltea in the 
hiftory of injects. See Scyll^a. 
SEA-HEN. A name by which fom.e ornitho- 
logifts exprefs the lommia, a web-footed fowl 
common on the Britifh coaftsj called alfo the 
guillemot and kiddow. 
SEA-HORSE. An Englifh appellation for 
the hippocampus; a fpecies of theacus, according 
to the ancient ichthyologifts, but belonging to the 
fyngnathi of Artedi. 
Many fabulous ftories are reported of this am- 
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