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and enlarging gradually to its end. This bag is

above half thc length of the body, and appears lilee
another body appendant thereto. I lhould bc in-
tircly at a lots concernitg this bag, did not tome pat-
(ages in Mr. Turbervilk Needhatn's curious obfer-
rations on the milt veffels of the Calanury enable nu
to form tome conjeftures about its de.
Having difteded feveral Calarnarks on the coati
of Portugal, without the local inelication of milt or
roe, and confequently without knowing which were
male or female, he N29 much furprifed (about the
middle of the month of December) to find a new
veiTel forming Kelt in an obvious pact, and replete
With a milky juice. This was *loyal bag, in which
the milt *Reis formed themfelves gradually, the
bag unfolding as theft framed and difpofed them-
(elves in bundles. Before that time he had obferved
two collateral tubes, which are alike in both keen
but a regular progrefs in the expanfion of the
milt-bag and fornution of the milt-veffels had not
patented itfelf before. Thofe tubes till then ap-
peared open at one extremity, much refembling the
female parts of generation in a fnail, but did not
terminate in a long oval bag extending in a parallel
*ith the flortmeh more than half the length of the
Mb, as he fdtand thent aftersvarda when the-Milt eel-
kis that filled the whole cavity were ripe for ejtetion.
The farne ducts without the bag are found in the fe-
male nIfo, perhaps for thc depofition of the fpawm
Vid. Pim:Manes Microfropical Difecavrirr, rap. V.
It appears Born this annotate that the male Cala-
'nary (at certain time of the year only) has a bag
wherein the milb.velfels art contained, and that the
female

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