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Genus LXIII. BOA T-B I L L. 



N° i. Crefted B. 



Var. A. Spotted B. 

 Var. B. Brown B. 



TH E bill in this genus is broad, with a keel along the mid- 

 dle, like a boat reverfed. 

 Noftrils fmall, lodged in a furrow* 

 Tongue fmall. 

 Toes divided. 



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CHESTED B. 



DESCR JP-'ION. 



Pl. LXXVI. 



Cancroma cochlearia, Lin. Syji. i. p. 233. N" I> 

 La Cuilliere, Brif. Orn. v. p. 506. 



Le Savacou, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 443. pl. 23.— PI. Enl. 38. 

 Boat-bill, Brown, lllujlr. p. 92. pl. 36. 

 Lev. Muf._ 



CIZE of a fowl : length twenty- two inches. The bill is fou-r 

 inches long, and of a fingular form, not unlike a boat with 

 the keel uppermoft, or, as fome think, like the bowls of two 

 fpoons, placed with the hollow parts together j the upper mandi- 

 ble has a prominent ridge at the top, and on each fide of this a 

 long channel, at the bottom of which the noftrils are placed.! 

 thefe are oval, and fituated obliquely ; the general colour of the 

 bill is dufky, or in fome fpecimens dark brown; the £kin be- 

 tween the under jaw capable of diftenfion : from the hind head 

 7 fprings 



