THE BOAT-BILL. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill broad, fiat, with a keel along the middle, like a boat reverred. 

 Nostrils fmall, lodged in a furrow. 

 To2S divided. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Cinereous Boat- Bill with the abdomen rufous, (fometiines white,) top of die 

 head and crefcent on the neck black. 



Boat- Bill. 



Lath. Synops. 5. />. 26. /. 76, 

 Boat-BilL 



Brown illufi. p. 92. /, 36. 

 Le Savacou. 



Buff. 7. p. 443. /. aj- 



THE formation of the beak in this bird is ftrikingly fingular, and is per- 

 haps broader in proportion to its length than in any other known bird; 

 the upper mandible is carinated, or furnifhed with a rifing longitudinal pro- 

 minence, which gives it an appearance not ill refembling an inverted boat. 

 The general colour of this fpecies is a dull blueifh, or lead-colour; paler oa 

 the breaft; the abdomen being of a ferruginous brown, more or lefs deep in 

 •different Ipecimens. The bill is duiky: the forehead white: the head furnifhed 



