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Tie Hiftory of ANIMALS. 
Cams caada reEla extremitate nigra. ^ 
The Canis y with a ftraight tail black at the tip . JfOjT* 
This is fomewhat larger than the common fox, and every way more robuft, in 
proportion : the head is large, and lefs attenuated at the fnout than in the common 
fox j the nofe is obtufe; the noftrils are large; the eyes are large, black, and promi¬ 
nent ; the ears are ere<ft and patulous j the mouth is wide, and well furnifhed with 
teeth j the neck is thick and fhort, the body is alfo fhort; the legs are very thick, and 
the tail is long, ftraight, bufhy, and it’s tip black : the colour of the whole animal is 
a deep brown, fomewhat like that of the fable, and the fur is very deep and glofly. 
We have the fkins fometimes impofed on us, when cut up and wrought, for true fa¬ 
ble j and indeed they come nearer it than thofe of any other animal. 
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It is a native of Tartary; few authors have been acquainted with it. 
Cams cauda reEla unicolore . 
The Canhy with a Jlraight tail all of one colour . ^ 9 % 0 &lbtV f&H JfOJT, 
This is of the fize of the common fox: the head is larger, and is not fo much at¬ 
tenuated at the fnout; the noftrils are large; the mouth is wide } the ears are fhort, 
ered, and patulous: the eyes are fmall, but they are prominent and black ; the neck 
is fhort and robuft ; the legs are fhorter and thicker than in the common fox, and the 
tail is longer, and more bufhy, and is neither black nor white at the extremity, but 
of the fame colour with the reft of it, which is the fame with that of the body,’ and 
is a pale brown, with a tinge of grey. 
This is a native of Siberia, and is frequent in the woods, and about villages, prey¬ 
ing on poultry, and weak animals of every kind, as the common kind with us. 
Few authors have feen it. 
P H O C A. 
T H E fore-teeth in the upper jaw of the Phoca are fix ; thofe in the under jaw 
are only four: the feet have each five toes, and are palmated and made for 
fwimming : there are no ears. 
Phoca dentibus caninis teElis. 
The Phocay with the canine teeth covered\ 
30)c £>ea-calf. 
This is a very lingular and extraordinary animal; it feems, indeed, in fome degree, 
to conned the quadruped and the fifh-kind. It grows to five feet, or more, in 
length, and will become very corpulent, but thofe which are ufually caught are fmailer: 
the head is very large, and irregularly fhaped; it is oblong, deprefied on the crown, 
and fomewhat flatted at the fides, and has a kind of protuberance on the under part, 
fo that in the whole it appears very lingular: the eyes are large, and are not promi¬ 
nent, but funk in the fubftance of the head, as it were; the ears are only two fmall 
apertures; in this it is extreamly Angular, being the only creature among the vivipa¬ 
rous quadrupeds, that has no external ear: the fnout is obtufe ; the noftrils are fmall • 
the mouth is wide, and over it there are placed a number of whifkers: the neck is 
very fhort and thick ; the body is long, and very large : the back flatted and depref- 
fed; the belly round and prominent: the fore-legs are rounded, and very fhort j they 
are indeed buried under the fkin of the body, almoft to the feet: the hinder legs are 
broad, flat, and joined together, fo as to refemble the tail of a fifh; between thefe 
there is a very fhort tail: all the feet afe webbed, or have the toes, which are five on 
each, connected by a membrane : from this ftru&ure of the feet the creature muft be 
very ill qualified for walking : the hairs or briftles which compofe the whifkers are of 
an odd figure, fquare and comprefted 5 there are none of them over the eyes, but only 
about the mouth. 
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