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and slight modifications of their bodies, capable of sail- 
ing, flying, swimming, and creeping on the shore, while 
their senses, if we may judge from the elaborate 
mechanism of their organs, must possess corresponding 
acuteness and perfection. But for the description of 
the anatomy of these animals, I must refer the reader 
to Mr. Owen’s masterly paper on that subject, in 
Todd’s Cyclopaedia of Anatomy, above quoted* 
