(Top) unlabeled, assumed to be a manticore. (Bottom) "leucrocotta" (or "leucrocuta", "leucurcuta",<sup id="cite_ref-enenkel-ch02_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-enenkel-ch02-1">[1]</a></sup> etc.).<br><p>Note also that these two beasts appear on the same page in Johannes Johnston's <i>Historiae Naturalis</i><sup id="cite_ref-enenkel-ch02_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-enenkel-ch02-1">[1]</a></sup> (cf. uploaded <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jonston1650-quadruped-TabLIII-manticore.png" title="File:Jonston1650-quadruped-TabLIII-manticore.png">manticore</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jonston1650-quadruped-TabLIII-leucrocotta.png" title="File:Jonston1650-quadruped-TabLIII-leucrocotta.png">leucrotta</a> images from it)<br></p>
Part of a collection of original drawings amassed by Gessner (some of which he used for his woodcuts in <i>Historiae animalium</i> and other works); the loose sheets were annotated and collated into "albums" by Felix Platter.
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