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ON T H E GEN E RA TION OF A N IM A LS 1 B o o k I I I 1 WE have now spoken about the sterility of mules, and about those animals which are viviparous both externally and within themselves . The generation of the oviparous sanguinea is to a certain extent similar to that of the animals that walk, and all may be embraced in the same general statement; but in other respects there are differences in them both as compared with each other and with those that walk .All alike are generated from sexual u- nion, the male emitting semen into the female . But among the ovipara (1) birds produce a perfect hard - shelled egg, unless it be injured by disease, and the eggs of birds are all two - coloured . (2) The cartilaginous fishes, as has been often said already, are oviparous internally but produce the y oung alive, the egg chan- ging previously from one part of the uterus to another ; and their egg is soft - shelled and of one colour .One of this class alone does 论动物生成 2 not produce the young from the egg within itself, the so - called frog; the reason of which must be stated later . (3) All other o- viparous fishes produce an egg of one colour, but this is imper- fect, for its growth is completed outside the mothers body by the same cause as are those eggs which are perfected within . Concerning the uterus of these classes of animals, what differences there are among them and for what reasons, has been stated previously . For in some of the viviparous creatures it is high up near the hypozoma, in others low down by the pudenda ; the former in the cartilaginous fishes, the latter in animals both internally and externally viviparous, such as m