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Part!. Of Quadruped’s. 
Creatures 5 but he is able to move one upward or back¬ 
ward, and the other downward or forward, or any other 
way, at the fame time. No lefs the fabrick of his Toiwue - 
which being hollow from end to end, with a ftrin» Run¬ 
ning through the hollow, fallen d behind to the Os hyoides, 
before to its extremity, it darts out and contracts it felf m 
an inftant: and with a Vifcous fubftance at the end, catches 
the Prey, which are Flys and other Infects, as weufe to do 
Birds with Limetwigs. Thus far Panarolus. 
In the High-hoe , and other Birds of this kind, there is a 
peculiar Cyftis , wherein a Vifcous matter, like that above 
mention d, is Bored, and a Pipe deriving it thence into the 
Mouth ; the Defcription whereof I may hereafter publilh. 
I fuppofe therefore, that upon further examination,the like 
Contrivance will be found in a Cbamaleon. 
It may be noted, That Panarolus , about the beginning 
of his Defcription, calls the Chamatleoti a flow Creature : 
Yet futh afterwards, (towards the end) that he climbs 
Trees fo wonderfully fwift, as if he flew. He is not there¬ 
fore fo properly flow, as perhaps fallen and humerous. 
Bai tboline (a) hath alfo the Anatomy of this Animal, but ( a ) Hift. 
tranfenbes it all out of Panarolus. In one particular much Cent ’ 2 ’ 
forgets himfelf,faying about the beginning of his Difcourfe, 
that the Chameleon hath very great Lungs j and in the end, 
that they are but little. 
A young brown CHAMELEON. 
A third, with black, yellow, and afh-colour mixed toge¬ 
ther. 
A C R O C O D IL E , about two yards and I long. 
He differs not much from a Lizard h chiefly in his Bulk, 
and the hardnefs of his Skin, which on his Back hath Scales 
proportionably hard and thick. In Paname there are fome 
an hundred feet long; as is affirmed both by Job. de Lopez, 
> b) anc * J°h- de Leri, (c) In the Mufaeum Romanian , there (DHiftlnd. 
is a Tragical Relation of a very great one that devoured a focipho. 
Virgin, Cap. 6. The fame Animal which in the Book of 
Job is called the Leviathan, and hath been commonly taken 
to be the Whale 5 but fallly,as Bocbart hath demonftrated. He 
is tolerably welldeferibed by mofl5 and cunouflyflgurd 
b y BeJler. He breeds in divers places in both the Indies , as 
well as in Egypt, 
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Nature, 
