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• CRESTED BOATBILL. 
^ (Cancroma cochlearia.) 
Ca. cristata einerascenSy ventre rufo, veriice haiulaque cervids 
nigris. 
Crested cinereous Boatbill, with the belly rufous •, the crown 
and lunule on the base of the neck black. 
Cancroma cochlearia. Linn. Syst, Nat. 1. 233. 1. — Gmel. Syst. 
Nat. 1. 617. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2.671* 1* 
Cancroma cancrofaga. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 233. 2. female ? — 
Gmel. Syst, Nat. 1. 6 18. feiuale? 
Cochlearius. Briss. Orn. 5. 506. 1. 
Cochlearius fuscus. Briss. Orn. 5. 5QQ. 2. female ? 
Cochlearius naevius. B?'iss. Orn. 5. 508. var. 
Gallinula aquatica, Tamatia. Mali. Syn. II6. 12. 
Le Saracou. Birff'. Ois. 7. 443. y;/. 23. — Bujf. PI. Enl. 38. 
Le Cuilliere brune. Buff. Ois. 7. 443. female? — Buff. PI. EnL 
869. female ? 
Brown Boatbill. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 28. female ? 
Spotted Boatbill. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 27. var. 
Boat-Bill. Brovon. Illust. ZooL Q2. qd. 36. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 5« 
26. pi. 76. 
Size of a Fowl ; length twenty-two inches : 
the beak is four inches long, and mostly dusky, 
though in some individuals it is dark brown : the 
skin between tlie under jaw capable of being dis- 
tended : from the occiput arises a Jong black 
crest, the feathers of which it is composed being 
narrow, and ending in a point ; the middle ones 
are six inches in length ; the others lessen by 
degrees to one inch, which is the length of tlie 
