proportion, the neck tall with a blue but blunt crest, the feathers black and exactly resembling those of an ostrich. Three _tigers_, one of a large and unusual size. Two _leopards_ well spotted, their ears short, their head like that of a cat, but their body more approaching to a mongrel greyhound; they are swift, and hunt hares, or other creatures, which are thrown into their walk. Several _lynces_, nothing different (as I am informed) from the panther; they are spotted with larger circles than a tiger or leopard, and much resemble a wild cat, but exceed it in size. An _hyaena_, much resembling a mastif, but the nose more round and contracted, a large belly, and a brindled spotted skin. A _beaver_, which is a little amphibious animal, of a flat figure, with a short neck and legs, a soft and thick fur, and a bare tail. These which follow, are at _Schonbran_. Several _wild goats_, the males with large horns, and therefore by the antients called _aegoceros_. Two _ostriches_, the one five, the other fifteen years old, the head higher than the ordinary stature of a man, the feathers black, except on the tail and tip of the wings, where they are milk white, the thighs perfectly bare, the legs long and substantial, the feet divided into two broad pulpy claws, which are thought poisonous, and in figure somewhat resembling those of a camel, whence they are called in Latin _camelostruthi_. Two _antilopes_. A she _elk_, a timerous animal, which is made much like an hind, with a broad excrescent mouth. Three _uri_, in the figure of a bull, but a thicker and shorter neck, with the appearance of prodigious strength, and one of them, very large. But concerning these two last species a fuller account may be seen in _Caesar_, _De B. Gall._ _Lib._ vi. _cap._ 5. There are three libraries in this place. One is called _Bibliotheca Windhagiana_, which belongs to the Dominican convent. Another is at the college of Jesuits, which is larger and better collected. But the third, which exceeds them both, and perhaps all others in these parts of the world, is that, which belongs to the Emperor at his palace in this city. In the Dominican library I saw a monstrous human _foetus_ kept in spirits of wine; with another dried and stuffed, which is double in all its parts, as having two heads, four hands, four legs, and two trunks as far as the navel, where they unite into one body. But what I observed in the _Caesarian_ library will deserve a more distinct relation, which I shall give in the following particulars. The most eminent _Greek Mss._ in the _Catalogue_ of _Nesselius_, with other curiosities by him mentioned, and particularly the pictures belonging to the _res vestiaria_ of the antients; all which may be seen in the catalogue which I had there with me.