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horny cxcrefcences equal in dimenfions : thefe birds are the fize of a 

 turkey- hen. We (hall defcribe one which may convey a good idea of 

 the whole kind. 



He was the fize of a raven, about two feet and a half long from bill 

 to tail ; his bill eight inches long, two inches wide, a little curved : a 

 kind of fecond bill furmounted the firft, following its courfe^ this reached 

 to within two inches of the point of the bill, riling two inches and a 

 quarters the height of bill, and excrefcence together (in the middle), 

 full four inches J this excrefcence has much the look of a fecond bill, 

 but clofed, yet (hewing a mark where it might almoft be thought to 

 open, running down the midfl: of it; this does not join the cranium, but 

 a kind of forehead void of feathers, covered with a Ikin, through which 

 pafles the nouriftiment of this falfe beak. The true bill terminates in a 

 blunt point, is of a horny fubflance, almoft ofleous j the falfe bill very 

 thin, and yielding to the fingers, is within cellulated like a honey-comb, 

 is black at its termination, has a black line at its origin, as alfo at the 

 root of the true bill, the reft yellowifti white ; the interior of the 

 bill and palate black ; at its root is a white folded (kin on each fide. 

 The eye is re d- brown ; the head refembles that of the jay. In general, 

 the appearance of this calao was a mixture of the jay, the pie, and the 

 raven. His head and neck were black; he could elevate his tuft like the 

 jay. His back and wings black, with feeble refleftions of violet and 

 green J on fome of his wing-feathers irregular borders of brown; the 

 Itomach and belly dirty white; feet black, thick and fcalyj nails long, 

 but not ftiarp. Leaped with both feet without walking, like the jay and 

 pie; when repofed held his head backward. Eat flefti as well as fruits; in- 

 capable of bearing cold. The whole tribe are ignoble, and fome filthy, 

 living on carrion; yet they are kept by the Indians to chafe rats and mice, 

 which they fwallow whole, for they cannot tear or divide with their bill. 



As the bill is the moft remarkable diftinftion of this bird, as alfo of 

 the Toucan, he may properly be followed by that bird. 



THE TOUCAN 



IS about the fize of, and fliaped like, a jack-daw, with a large 

 head ; its bill, from the angles of the mouth to its point, is fix 

 inches and an half; its breadth, in the thickeft part, exceeds two ; its 

 thicknefs near the head is one inch and a quarter; it is a little rounded 

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