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This order is composed of ‘those birds rribse external toe. 
is directed backwards like the thumb, by which conformation 
they are the better enabled to support the weight of their 
bodies, and of which certain genera take advantage in cling- 
ing to and climbing upon trees. It is from this that they 
have received the common name of Climbers,which in strict- 
ness is not applicable to all of them, as there are many true 
Climbers which by the disposition of their toes cannot belong 
to this order, instances of which we have already seen in the 
Creeper and Nuthatch. , 
The Seansorize usually nestle in the hollows of old trees 5 
their powers of flight are middling; their food, like that of 
the Passerine, consists of insects or fruit, in proportion as 
their beak is more or es stout; some of them, the Wood- 
‘peckers for instance, have peculiar means for obtaining it. 
’ The hind part of theysternum, i in most of the genera, has a , 
double emargination 5 in the Parrots, there is merely a hole, 
and. very often that'is completely filled up. 
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mJ fit. he ay - ~*. Gaaua, Briss. 
‘The Jacamars are closely allied to’ the Kingfishers by their elon- 
ga d sharp- -pointed beak, the upper ridge of which is angular, and 
"Y ir short feet, the anterior toes of which are almost wholly 
united; ‘these toes, however, are not precisely the same as those of 
, the Kingfishers; abeit plumage moreover is not so smooth, and 
Seite ’ 
NB. The B.’'galeatus, of which we only have the ‘head, Enl. 933, and which 
wes aillant erroneously considers as an aquatic bird, is a true Hornbill, but whose 
“porton oi on the beak is invested with an excessively thick horn, the anterior 
ure on of it particularly. | 
See the general article onthe Hernbills, by Temminck, in the text of the Planches 
EiColiviées. P.S. It is to General Hardwick that we are at length indebted for a 
| knowledge of the B. galeatus, which proyes to be, in fact, a true Hor nbill, with a 
E long cuneiform tail; black; white belly; the tail yellowish, with a black band near 
the end. Lin. Tr. XIV, pl. xxviii. 
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