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the Nbandhuguacu, or the fuppofed Oflrich of America, to a 

 Crane *. 



It feems however to have gained univerfally the nafne of 

 OJirich by the Europeans, but unfortunately fcarce any two have 

 given the fame account : Marcgrave fays, it has three toes fur- 

 nifhed with claws forwards, and one without a claw behind ; 

 Fermin, that it has only two toes, joined by a membrane -f- ; but 

 Bajon% afiuresus that it has four, all placed as in the Heron genus. 

 However this be, we meet with birds called OJlriches, on the 

 whole of the American continent, from Guiana to the moftfouthern 

 coaft of the continent ; at Rio Grande ||, about Buenos Ayres §, 

 and fo on to the coafts of Patagonia *■*•: indeed many other voy- 

 agers have mentioned, but none defcribed the bird fufficient to 

 afcertain the fpecies. Dampier \\ alfo talks of OJlriches being- 

 found to the fouth of Bahia in great plenty, though not fo large 

 as thofe of Africa, and found chiefly in thefouthern parts of Brafil, 

 efpecially among the large favannas near the river Plate, and 

 from thence further fouth, as far as the ftreights of Magellan. 



* Grus cinerea fv rivira ; but adds, that it has fomewhat the appearance of an 

 Oftricb. He calls it likewife, in other places, an Heron. 



t Defer. Surin. ii. p. 142. — He adds, that the bird has two fpurs on each 

 wing, like the Hedge-hog's quills, but confefles that he has never feen one. He 

 is right, however, in faying that it ftands from four to five feet in height. 



J Mem. fur Cay. 



\\ Klein, p. 17. 



§ Falk. Patag. p. 5Z. — Said to abound in this neighbourhood. 



** See Falk. Pat. p. 5Z, 53, 101, 109, 126, where he mentions the methods 

 of taking them, and fays their name is Choijue. See alfo Wallis's Voy. 



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