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three meters above the ground, and covered with 

 leaves of the fan-palm. 



A very remarkable fa(fl is, that at the mo- 

 ment when we landed, fuch of our feamen as 

 were in the leaft affed:cd '.vith the fcurvy, and 

 even thofe who had no appearance of it, expe- 

 rienced a confiderable fvvelling in every part of 

 the body ; but this fymptom, at which fome of 

 us had been alarmed, entirely difappeared after 

 three or four hours walking. 



During our ftay in this ifland, I was con- 

 flantly viliting its forefts ; I there gathered a 

 rich collection of new plants, and I killed a 

 great many fcarce birds, among others the 

 fpecies of promerops, which Buffon calls the 

 promerops of New Guinea, a large black cock- 

 atoo (pfittaciis aterrimus), and a new fpecie-s of 

 hornbill, to which I have given the name of 

 Calno of the Ifiand of IVaygiou: its bill, which is 

 arched, and of a dirty white, is two decimeters 

 long. Each mandible is unequally indented ; 

 the upper m.andible is furmounted by a fort of 

 yellovvifh creft, which is flattened and grooved : 

 the wings and body are black ; the tail is white, 

 and the neck of a pretty bright rufous. (See 

 Plate XL) This beautiful bird is eight de- 

 cimeters in length from the end of the bill to 

 the extremity of the feet. 



I faw 



