which conjlrncls eatable Kefls. 1 19 



the head, The neck is very fhort, as well as the legs and 

 the bones of the wings. The thighs are wholly covered 

 with feathers ; and the very tender lower parts of the legs, 

 and the feet themfelves, are covered with a fkin like black 

 parchment. Each foot has four toes, three of which arc 

 before and one turned backwards. They are all detached 

 from each other to the roots ; and the middle one, together 

 with the claw, is fully as long as the lower part of the leg. 

 Each toe is furniihed with a black, fharp, crooked claw of a 

 confiderable length, by which the animal can with great 

 •facility attach itfelf to crags and rocks. The tail is fully as 

 long as the body together with the neck and the head. 

 When expanded it has the form of a wedge, and confifts of 

 ten large feathers. The four firft on each fide are long, and, 

 when the tail is clofed, extend almoft an inch beyond the 

 reft. The other feathers decreafe towards the middle of the 

 tail, and are equal to about the length of the body. 



The whole bird is exceedingly light and tender. Ten of 

 them together weighed little more than two ounces and a 

 half. The Javanefe call it lawit ; but thofe who live in the 

 mountains, berongdagts or waled*. 



There are two places in particular near Batavia where 

 thefe birds are found in great numbers. The firft, Calappa 

 Nongal, lies about ten miles fouthwards from the city ; the 

 other, Sampia, is a little more diftant towards the fouth- 

 weft; but they are both in that range of high land extending 

 towards the fea, which is apparently different from the large 

 ridge that extends over the whole ifland. Befides thefe there 

 are alfo feveral other places in the fame diftricT;, or at a 

 greater diftancc from the coaft, which cither produce a few, 

 or are carefully concealed by the Javanefe to whom thev are 

 known. 



The two bird mountains before mentioned, called by the 

 Javanefe caverns (goa), are infulated rocks, hollow within 



■ \ arcing in the M;il:iy language Signifies in general a bird. 



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