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that of the OJirich, of a greenifh grey, inclining to afh-colour, 

 and marked with elevated * fmall deep green fpots. The bird 1 

 is very fierce in the wild ftate j grunts like an Hog; and kicks 

 with the legs like an Horje. 



The food, in the ftate of nature-, is no doubt vegetable ; for it 

 will eat bread, apples, and fuch like, when in confinement ; all 

 which it fwallows whole, not bruifing it with the bill ; and is faid 

 alfo to gorge flows, iron, and any thing which is offered to it, in-, 

 difcriminately, like the OJirich. 



* Linnaus calls the fpots indenttd; Ova pundis excavatls. See a frgure o» 

 the egg in Kttiti. 0<i>. pi. 2. 



D rv. 



