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the former : Firft, from its place of nativity, as no true Toucan is 

 found throughout the old Continent : Secondly, the tongue is 

 flefhy, and not pennaceous, which laft is one of the characteriftics 

 of the Toucan genus : And thirdly, the briftles which project from 

 the bafe of the bill, added to the others, incline me to give it 

 place in this chapter. 



QIZE of a Blackbird : length eleven inches and a half. Bill one 

 inch and a half long; rather comprefTed on the fides, and curved 

 the whole length, but moft fo near the tip ; the colour that of 

 vermilion, or fine red fealing-wax : the noftrils are covered with 

 reflected briftles j and befides thefe a few others, which reach 

 more forward on the bill : the head, neck, and upper parts of 

 the body, dufky black : lefler wing coverts, neareft the body, 

 mixed with white : breaft and belly cinereous : quills and tail of 

 a full black; the laft rounded in fhape : legs dufky: toes placed 

 two and two as in other Barbets. 



Some fpecimens are of a fuller black than others, and the afh- 

 colour on the under parts deeper. 



Suppofed to inhabit Cayenne. I have lately feen feveralofthe 

 above which came from that place, and much fufpedl them to be 

 the fame with the red-billed Crow, p. 403, as I remember that at 

 the time of my defcribing the laft, I had not a view of the legs 

 fufEcient to identify the genus. 



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