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seen, its appearance is not easily forgotten. It inhabits river- 
banks in South America. 
A very odd South-American Bird (Cancroma cochlearia) is 
called the ‘ Boat-bill,” on account of its wide and capacious 
beak. Another Bird, not less singular and with a still larger 
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The Boat-bill (Cancroma cochlearia). 
beak, comes from Africa, where it inhabits the banks of the 
Upper Nile, and is even there a rare Bird. It is of large size, 
and its great bill resembles somewhat the jaws of a Crocodile. 
It is called tiie Shoe-bill (Baleniceps rea), Another African 
Bird of very much smaller size (about the size of a Crow), with 
a much smaller and compressed beak, is remarkable for building 
