£6* 



O D Y. 



oblique fegments : the outer and middle toe united ; all the toes 

 full of rough fegments, ten in number at leaft on each : the claws 

 are yellow. 



I met with this bird in fpirits at Sir Jofeph Banks's. It appears 

 to me a curious, and hitherto undefcribed bird. 



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Description. 



14. 

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Description. 



Todi fpecies o&ava, Pall. Spic. 6. p. 19. t. 3. C the bill. 



TpHIS fpecies is the fize of a Nightingale, and is remarkable for 

 the bill, which is very broad, refembling that of the Boat- 

 bill* j it is flat, pointed at the tip, and whitilh in colour; the 

 noftrils Handing in an hollow at the bafe : three large briftles, 

 and other fmall ones, are placed on each fide the bill, with fome 

 few hairs on the forehead: crown of the head lead-colour, in the 

 middle of which is an oblong white. fpot, in the manner of the 

 Tyrant Shrike f : the back is luteous brown : beneath it is luteous : 

 the throat whitifh : quills brown : tail even, brown : legs and claws 

 yellowifh: outer toes joined to the middle one by a membrane, 

 as far as two joints. 



This was defcribed from a fpecimen in the Mufeum of the 

 Prince of Orange. 



Lev. Muf, 



'"FHIS fpecies is about the fize of the former, and is eight inches 



in length. The bill is in fhape much like that of the laffc 



defcribed, an inch and a quarter in length, and very broad at 



Cancroma of Linnaus, 



T N° 37. p. iS 4> 



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