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Genus LXI. SCREAMER, 



N 9 i. Horned Scr. 



N° 2. Crefted Scr. 



BILL bending down at the point* with a horn, or with & 

 tuft of feathers erect near the bafe of it. 

 Noftrils oval. 



Toes divided almoft to their origin, with a fmall membrane 

 between the bottoms of each„- 



HORNED SCR, 



Dbscriptiom. 

 Pl. LXXiV. 



Palamedea cornuta, Lin. Syji. i. p. 232. 1. 



Le Kamichy, Brif. Orn. v. p. 518. 1. — Buf.Qif. vii, p. 335. pi. 18.— 

 PI. Enl. 45 1. 

 , Anhima, Raii Syn. p. 96. 7. — Will. Orn. p. 276. pi. 47. 

 Aigle d'eau cornu, Defer. Surin. ii. p. 143. 

 Camoude, Mem. fur Cayen. ii. p. 2S6. pi. 4. 



CIZE of a Turkey :■ length three feet four inches. The bill 

 two inches and a quarter long, and black; the upper mandi- 

 ble a little gibbous at the bafe, the under fhutting beneath it,. 

 as in the gallinaceous tribe : the noftrils oval and pervious, and 

 placed near the middle of die bill : from the crown of the head 

 fprings a flender horn of more than three inches in length,, and 

 pointed at the end : the irides are the colour of gold : the plu- 

 mage on the head, neck, and upper part of the body, is black,, 

 margined with grey on the firft, and downy : fome of the feathers, 

 round the neck are likewife edged with the fame : the under 

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