Tunnel-Animals* 331 
Way, and then opening their anterior End, 
exhibit a wide Mouth fomewhat of a Funnel 
Form, though not compleatly round, but 
having a Sort of Slit or Gap that interrupts 
the Circle. The Lips or Edges of this Open¬ 
ing are furnifhed with Multitudes of little 
Fibrillae, which by their brifk and continual 
Motions excite a Current of Water, bring¬ 
ing with it Abundance of minute Particles of 
Matter and living Animalcules, which they 
fwallow greedily.—One of them in the Pof- 
ture above defcribed may be feen at the Let¬ 
ter f, -They can fafhion this Mouth or 
Opening into the feveral Appearances fhewn 
in the Picture. 
If any Thing touches or approaches very 
near them, they £hrink back and contract, 
as at the Letter g. 
Thefe Funnel-Animals never keep toge¬ 
ther in Clutters, but live feparately and in¬ 
dependent of one another, iwimming freely 
through the Water, feemingly in fearch of 
Prey, and after a while fix themfelves to 
any Thing they meet with. 
Mr. De "Reaumur and Mr. Frembley dif- 
^inguifh the little Creatures I have been de¬ 
scribing by the Name of* Funnel-like Polypi: 
and thelaft-mentioned Gentleman, to whofe 
* I hare not the lead Obje£lion to this Name, though I 
here retain what I had given them myfelf long before either 
of thefe Gentlemen had piiblilhed theirs : and I am pleafed 
%o find our Ideas of this Creature fo near alike., 
* inde- 
