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Captvjis, 
Aculeata. 
Anatinus, 
MAMMALIA. BRUTA. Platypus. 
long tawny-yellow hair, annulate with blackilh- 
inches, heighth lo. lacKun. 
length j3 : 
ftorte? tfel th’ Pendulous ; 
norter than the body, tapenng to the tip. ' 
^ouSs buno " “‘^7’^Sliing almoft a h,mdred 
pc unds, buuows m the ground, fleeps by day, prowls by 
Body covered with long lharp fpines; tail very Ihort. 
Inhabits Nero Holland: fi.e of a rat. 
Spines on the back and Tides reiembline thofc of the • .. 
.'f 'i “1 * of dot™* 1.^.3,“; 
colours ; head and under-parts deep-brown • tail fliovt i rl 
. little n.tt,™clo,.he,ipf cov Jd "r’"S; 
fp.n« , fall, bluck, ,r,a,l,l„dll.: fa Ihlrt Ih S 
5 -toed; toes broad, round; clazoj black on tli.. u- i c t 
^ like the bill 
oi a duck ; jeet palmate. 
-p, . ^ Platypus. 
Tbs flogularand newly-difcovered anipaal, as I have never feeii 
It, I can only defenbe m the words of n.- c.. . . . 
if T 1 j r -L •iiupjai, as 1 hav 
It, I can only defenbe m the words of Dr SnAn. • c it. 
f - “d 3*6; rir»s,;s; 
“ Of all the maminalia yet known it Teems the . j- 
nary in its conformation ; exhibiting the perfeft re§mw'^'’*^‘^'f 
the beak of a Duck engrafted on^thc hS of ? 
bo accurate is the Timilitude that at firft , ■ 
excites the idea of ib.ne deceptive prepantb?’h‘ naturally 
means; the very epidermis, pronorthsn^ artificial 
of opening, and other particulars^f the bear^f 
or other broad-billed fpecies of duck prefenfi 
the view: nor is it Without the mXiS 
amination that we can perfuade ourfelves of 
beak or Inout of a quadmped. ‘he real 
‘f The iody is depreffed, ancf has fome rprp..,ki 
Otter in miruaiure: it is covered with^a *!] 
beaver-hke fur, and is of a moderately dark bTo?“'^l^°^‘’ 
ef a fubferruginous white beneath, iie IL 11^^,’ and 
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