PLATYPUS. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Mouth shaped like the bill of a duck. 
Feet webbed. 
Platypus Anatinus. . . Vivarium Naturae, tab. 385. 
The Duck-billed Platypus. Naturalists' Miscellany, pi. 385. 
Shaw Gen. Zool. v. 1. p. 228. 
pi. 66 . 
Naturalists received this animal with the utmost 
caution when it was first brought from New Holland. 
The conformation of the creature was so new, and 
the appearance of deception so strong, that it 
was not till after two more specimens were sent over 
by Governor Hunter to Sir Joseph Banks, that its 
