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THE WATTLE-BIRD. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill incurvated and arched: the lower mandible fhorter than the upper, 

 and furnifhed with a pair of watdes. 



Nostrils deprefled, half covered with a fomewhat cartilaginous mem- 

 brane. 



Tongue fiib-cartilaginous, divided at the end, and ciliated. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Blackifli Wattle-bird, with blue eyes, and red wattles. 

 Cinereous Wattle-bird. 



Latb. Syn, i. p. 364. 



TH E Wattle Bird is one of thofe late acquifitions with which the dif- 

 coveries in the fouthern Hemifphere have enriched ornitholog}'. It was 

 a bird entirely unknown to the naturalifts of Europe, till brought during the 

 voyages of the late Captain Cook from New Zealand, where it is faid to be 

 not uncommon. 



Its 



