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Le Calao d'Abyflinie, Buf. elf. vii. p. icr. 4* 



r a n i ju cr ■ J i ABYSSINIAN 



Grand Calao d Abyffinie, P/. <?»/. 779. y 



'"pHIS is among the largeft of the genus : in fhape it moft re- Description. 



fembles a Raven, but is larger and thicker : the length three 

 feet two inches. The bill is nine inches in length, flightly Bill, 



bent the whole length, and comprefTed on the fides; both man- 

 dibles are channelled on the infides, and blunt at the tips ; 

 on the top of the upper, at the bafe, is a prominence of a femicir- 

 cular fhape, two inches and a half in diameter, and fifteen lines 

 broad at the bafe, which is over the eyes : this excrefcence is of 

 the fame fubftance with the bill, but fo very thin, as to eafily give 

 way to the preffure of the fingers : the height of the bill, with 

 the additional horn, meafures vertically almofl three inches and 

 three quarters : on each fide of the upper mandible, near the bafe, 

 is a reddifh fpace ; and a naked violet brown fkin encircles the 

 eyes, and covers the throat, and fome of the fore part of the 

 neck. 



The colour of the plumage is wholly black, except the greater Plumage, 

 quills, which are white : the fecondaries and part of the wing co- 

 verts are of a deep tawny brown : the legs are five inches and a 

 half long : the middle toe, with the claws, is twenty-eight lines 

 long; the three forward ones nearly equal in length; the hind 

 one alfo pretty long, being two inches ; all of them are thick 

 and ftout, and covered, as well as the legs, with blackifh fcales.: 

 the claws are ftrong, but not bent, nor fharp. 



This inhabits Abyjfinia *. Place, 



Le 



* I have fome fufpicion, tliat the " certain black birds," mentioned by 

 M. Adanfon, may prove the above. He fays, " they were fo like a Turkey, 



Y y 2 both 



