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WREATHED BUI of an Indian Raven, Will. orn. t. 78. 



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Description of a T a HE bill is, in figure, not unlike that of N° 3 : in length, 

 the Bill. JL f rom t ] ie an gl e s of the mouth to tip, from five to fix inches: 



on the top of the upper mandible is an appendage arifing about 

 an inch in height ; this is rounded at top, and divided into feven 

 or eight fegments, not unaptly refembling the rattle of a rattle- 

 snake : the edges of the mandibles are jagged in the middle, not 

 ferrated: noftrils fituated at the bafe of the firft fegment, and have 

 the appearance of roundifh holes. Specimens of this are to be 

 feen in the Britifo, Leverian, and other Mufeums. The bill only 

 has a I believe, yet arrived in England, 



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