as picture III shows. In the year 1578, a certain traveling showman was exhibiting this monstrous calf for profit, claiming it had been born in the territory of Vicenza. For this reason, we saw to it that it was illustrated, along with the "smallest yellow trefoil" of the herbalists.

A not dissimilar calf with seven feet was born in Kalisz, Poland, in the year 1269, within the eight days of Christmas. However, because it had a doubled head in addition to its multiple feet, making it resemble a two-bodied monster, this creature will be discussed separately in its own chapter.

While we were writing these things, in the year 1641, an eight-legged calf without a neck was born in the territory of Bologna. Four of its feet supported the animal's hindquarters, which were in a way doubled and featured two tails; two feet supported the front, and the remaining two grew out from the neck. The remains of this calf are preserved in the home of the most distinguished Giovanni Antonio Godi, a highly celebrated surgeon and anatomist. In the museum of the most illustrious Senate of Bologna, we also keep the remains of two calves, one of which had five feet and the other six.

If we turn our attention from there to examining flocks of sheep, we find in Lycosthenes (citing Livy) that in the year of the world 3769, and 194 years before the birth of the Virgin, a five-legged lamb was born in Ascoli. However, besides the deformity of its feet, it also had two heads. Aelian mentions another two-headed lamb, but one born with eight feet and a double tail; yet, because he understood that this monster had spoken with a human voice, he considered the account to be a fable.

Here, we present for the reader's inspection an eight-legged lamb born a few years ago in the territory of Padua, the image of which Master Francesco Ricci of Padua gave to us for publication. This lamb was entirely black, with two backs joined together, two tails, three ears, and eight feet, two of which grew out from the top of the back, just as it is shown in figure IV along with Dodonaeus's lesser plantain.

Likewise, in a village called Sugenheim, which belongs to the Diocese of Strasbourg and is located two miles from Strasbourg, a pig with six feet is reported to have been born in the year 1496, according to Lycosthenes.

Trustworthy men have also recently reported to us that a six-legged dog was born in Rimini. We do not think this is far from the truth, as an eight-legged dog of a keen-scented breed recently came into the world here in Bologna; in its case, six feet supported the animal's hindquarters while only two supported the front. We saw to it that this monstrous dog was illustrated together with de l'Obel's "dog's apple," namely the mandrake, as seen in image V.

For now, we shall pass over the fact that, according to Lycosthenes, in the year 1552, in the house of Ludwig Dheithei, a domestic cat gave birth among other kittens to a living one with eight feet; it had a single head but two bodies and was of both sexes. We will speak of this later in the chapter on two-bodied monsters.

Furthermore, while we were writing the *History of Digitated Quadrupeds*, an eight-legged cat of both sexes was born in Bologna, having two heads and two tails but with the backs joined together. Not long after, a six-legged female cat was born, colored partly white and partly dark gray; four feet supported the cat's hindquarters and only two the front. We provide the likeness of this monstrous cat, together with "cat-joy"—that is, bugloss—represented in image VI.

Even among wild animals, monsters of this kind have sometimes been observed. Indeed, we read in Conrad Lycosthenes that in the year 1533, in Bischofszell, a town of Thurgau in Switzerland, when a pregnant hare was being gutted, a leveret was found in her womb with a single body and head, yet possessing four ears and eight feet, four of which