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MANILLA ISLANDS, 

 are diftinguiflied by the vaft length of thek tails ; that of the 

 firft ftiait, of the other incurvated. 



The Hornbi/l, tab. 83. Latham, i. 353; the bill, as iifiial, 

 great and incurvated, and each mandible marked acrofs with fe- 

 veral prominent moldings of a brown color, and the interme- 

 diate furrows pale yellow ; the acceffory bill is llrait, and ends 

 abrupt, about half the length of the real. 



The Pbllippine Hornbill, Latham, i. 345. PI. Enl. 873, is 

 black above, white beneath ; the bill is vaft, with the acceflbrial 

 bill convex at the top and in front, one third black, the hind 

 part white ; this bird is as large as a great fowl, and the beak 

 nine inches long. 



The Manilla Eornbill, Latham, i. 354. PI. Enl. 891, has a 

 fimple bill ; the head, neck, breaft, and belly are white ; be- 

 neath the cheek is a black fpot ; back and wings black. 



The above, and two fpecies hereafter to be mentioned, are 

 natives of thefe iflands and of the Moluccas ; their food is fruit ; 

 they inhabit the .higheft trees, and are the grotefque birds of 

 the Indian archipelagos. 



PtANTs. Respecting the trees, Ihrubs, or plants of the Manillas, I 



muft content myfelf with giving the few engraven by M. Soft- 

 nerat, or defcribed by that moft induftrious naturalift. 



The Sapotte Negro, tab. 14, a fpecies of Achras, is a fmali 

 tree, with a round green fruit, containing four kernels, in fliape 

 of an almond, much admired by the hidians. 



The Berkias, tab. 48, is a fhrub bearing a flower of an ele- 

 gant form. Sonnerat puts it under the genus of the Pande- 



quaqudi 



