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Genus XI. W A T T L E = B 1 ft D. 



N° I. Cinereous Wattle-Bird. 



THE bill in this genus is incurvated and fornicated, the 

 upper mandible exceeding the lower in length. 



At the gape of the bill a carunculated wattle, arifing from the 

 under mandible. 



The noflrils depreffed, half covered by a membrane of a tex- 

 ture fomewhat cartilaginous, and tufted near the ends. 



The tongue of a fub-cartilaginous texture, divided at the end^, 

 or rather deeply ferrated, and ciliated. 



Legs made for walking : toes three before and one * behind : 

 the legs carinated at the back part. 



4- CINEREOUS 

 WATTLE- 

 BIRD. 

 Pi. XIV. 



Description. 



Lev. Muf. 



HPHIS Angular bird is about the fize of a Jay : the length from 

 bill to tail is fifteen inches. The bill is black, very ftrong, 

 and bent downwards; in length an inch and a quarter: the 

 noflrils are fituated in a hollow at the bafe of the bill, and are 

 half covered by a membranous cartilage, which hangs over them 

 as a cover : from the bafe of the lower mandible, on each fide, 



* I here take an opportunity of remarking an error of the prefs (for fuch only 

 k can be) in the Genera of Birds, where it is mentioned, that this genus has three 

 toes before, and two behind, being five in all ; a circumftance wholly unnatural 

 in the feathered tribes. See Gen. of Birds, p. g. 1. 15. 



fprings 



