( fu ) 
Wherefore I {hall leave him, and proceed to the Ac- 
count^given by Alphonjus Borellus in his Treatife de Motu 
Animalim^spart. z. pag. 24. which is in feveral Refpe&s 
likevvife unfatisfa&ory, and the Figure given by him to 
explain it very defedive^nd illdefigned. 
He makes the pair of Mufcles concerned in thrufting 
the Tongue out, to be fattened indeed as they are to the 
lower Beak towards the Point ; but then he makes their 
Infertion at their other End to be at the extremities of 
the two OJfa Hyoidea\ ; whereas they really reach to the 
very end of the long Cartilages that go round the Head : 
Thefe by another Miftake, he makes to be the Rerra- 
dors of the Tongue, and joins another pair as Affiftants 
in the fame Adion, which he makes to be twitted fpi- 
rally about' the Trachia. None of all which agree with 
the Subjeds I have met with, as will be feen by the de- 
feriptions of my Figures^ 
In the Hiftory of the Academie Roy ale des Sciences , 
publifh’d in Latin by Monf. dn Hamel , 1698. Lib. 4. 
Cap . 5. There is another Defer iption of this admirable 
Contrivance of Nature, by Monf Mery, read at a Meet- 
ing of the Academie, November 16, 1695’. 
In this he differs from both Perault and Borelli , ta- 
king the Horny End and Bone to which it is joined, to be 
only the Tongue properly To called, and that the next 
two Bones anfwer the Hyoides with the long Cartilages 
annexed to them. But even in this he feems to me not 
to be fo clear; confounding, aslapprehend, thetwo Bones 
with the Cartilages. He deferibes the Vagina, in which 
the Bones and part of the Cartilages are encompafled, 
and which is faftned to the Horny end, and is protru* 
ded and drawn back with the Tongue: he takes notice 
of the little (harp Points or Prickles on the Horny Parc 
being moveable, and with their Points bending towards 
the Throat ; but I apprehend it is a Miftake to make the 
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