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PartI. Of Shells. 
Goofe. Scaliger alfo dcfcribcs this (fuppofed) Bird within 
this (hell, (a) And with refpect to fo worthy a Perfon as ( a ) Exerdr, 
Sir Robert Moray ( who never meant to deceive) I my felf 5?- toward 
was once induced to publifh his Defcnption of the fame. ( b ) ’i/phiiof. 
But having examined the Shell it felf, I am of Opinion, A r - 
That all that is faid of a Bird, is fabulous. Bartboline (c) M Hiftor. 
would have it to belong to a kind of CanceUns. But I rather Cent ’ 6 ‘ 
agree with Columnar that it is a fort of Cetitre-Shell ; as being 
fixed in like manner upon it’s Bafe, and compofed of feveral 
fhelly parts. 
Of thefe Shells two Species are here preferved. One of 
them confifhng only of five fhelly pieces. Two greater, 
almoll like little Mufcle-jheUs. To thefe are joyned, edge to 
edge, and oppofitely, a much leffer pair, fc. in fuch manner, 
as their Bafe Bands over the Cone, and their Points defeend 
half way towards the Bafe, of the greater pair. Both thefe 
pairs arc on one fide hem’d in with a fifth piece, narrow, 
long, and inwardly Concave, almoft like a Larks Heel. The 
Neck to which they are falfen’d is here wanting. This Spe¬ 
cies is figur’d, and in forne fort deferibed by Wormius. But 
the Figure in Calceolarias’sMufeetim anfwersnot. 
The FLAT CENTRE-SHELL with the Scaled Bafe. 
Balanus compreffa is? Squamata 5 fo I call it. This Species 
is in fome fort figur’d by Rondeletius. But his Defcnption 
worth nothing. ’Tis near an inch long, and ? of an inch 
broad at the Bafe, where it is fomewhat narrower than 
in the middle. W hitifh, and with fome Rays of blew. It 
confiffs of five greater pieces, whereof the middlemoft 
pair, thegreateft and the longed. The leffer pair are joyned 
to them edge to edge, reaching half their length, but not 
oppofitely with their Points downward, as in the former 
Specie shut upward. The fifth piece not joyned to this leffer 
pair, as in the other Species, but to the oppofite edge of the 
greater. Round about the Bafe of the Shell feveral little 
pieces, fome bigger and fome lefs, Hand after the manner 
of Scales, with their points alfo forward. So that it looks 
almolf like a great Bud crufhed flat. ’Tis joyned to a Necf 
about i of an inch over, an inch, fometimes more , or 
lefs, in length 5 of a brown colour,rough, and compofed of 
an innumerable company of frnall Knobs,almoft like thofe 
on fome Fifties Skins. Several Shells, by the like Necks, 
commonly grow all together in a Cluiter. I have 
