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CHILI 
PLAC: 
DESCRIPTION. 
PLACE, 
PLANT-CUTTER. 
Genus XXXIX. PLANT-CUTTER. 
ILL conic, ftrait, ferrated on the edges. 
Nostrits oval. 
ToncueE fhort, obtufe. 
* Witn Four Toes. 
Phytotoma Rara; Izd. Oru. i. p. 466. 1.— Molin. Chil. (Fr. ed.), p. 234+. 
Phytotome du Chili, ou Rara, Daudin. Ora. ii. p. Be 
SIZE of a Quail: bill very ftrong, pointed at the tip,. half an: 
inch long, indented like a faw on the edges’: tongue very fhort,. 
blunt: irides brown = the back is dufky grey; the under parts paler:: 
tail of a moderate length, rounded at the end: quills and tail feathers. 
fpotted with black. The foot confifts of four toes, three before and! 
one behind ; the hind toe much fhorter than the forward ones. 
Inhabits Chi, where it is far from uncommon. The voice is. 
rough, and the bird at intervals utters the words Ra, Ra, very dif- 
tinétly : its food is vegetables, perhaps preferring the parts next the 
root, for with much pains, it digs about and cuts off the plants with 
its bill, as it were with a faw, clofe to the eround ; from this circum- 
ftance, it does much injury to the gardens, and is detefted by the in- 
habitants. Thefe birds build the neft in high trees, well cloathed. 
with leaves, and in unfrequented places; the eggs are white, fpotted 
with red, 
