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PLATE 



XXXVI. 



THE 



BOAT -BILL. 



GENUS CANCROMA, LIN. SYST. 233. 

 BOAT-BILL, PEN. GEN. BIRDS, 61. 



SIZE, 

 BILL, 



NOSTRILS, 

 FRONT, 



KECK, 

 INHABITS 



of a crow. 



broad, depreffed, dilated, fharp at the point, 

 ridged along the top or carinated. 



ovated, fmall. 



white; crown, hind part of the neck, and 

 the beginning of the back black, the reft of 

 the BACK, WINGS, and tail, light cinereous. 



white, on the under fide and belly and vent 



of bright ferruginous. 

 Brafil, Guiana, and other parts of South Ame- 

 rica. The Tamatia of Marcgrave is of the 

 fame genus. Mr. pennant. 



Tlie Beetle belongs to the Scarab, thorace 

 inermi, capite cornuto, of linn^eus. It is 

 all over of a dark cheihut color, the horn 

 is fliorter than the head, pointing back- 

 wards ; it is very hairy on the under fide, 

 the thighs are remarkably fliort and thick, 

 and the hindmoft pair of legs have a re- 

 markable compreflion in the middle. It 

 coines from the liland of Minorca, and may 

 be called femoratus. It is in the cabinet 

 of Mr. YEATS, and very rare. 



