( 19° ) 



with a large black pendent creft, of confiderable length. The wings and tail 

 are fliort. The legs ftrong, and of a yellowifli brown. 



Of this curious bird there is a variety, which, though confidered as a diftimft 

 Ipecies by fome ornithologifls, is probably owing to nothing more than the 

 natural difference of colour, arifing either from the more or lefs advanced age 

 of the bird, or from the difference between the male and female. This va- 

 riety is of a ferruginous colour above, and whitifh beneath : in other refpedls 

 it refembles the former. 



The Boat-bill is a South American bird, and frequents watery places, feed- 

 ing nearly in the manner of Herons, on filli, frogs, &c. 



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