^O BOAT-BILL. 



GENUS LXXIV.— BOAT-BILL. 



Cinereous A Var. Spotted || B Var. Brown 



1 HE bill in this Genus is broad, with a keel along the middle of 

 the upper part, like a boat reversed. 



Nostrils small, lodged in a furrow. 



Tongue small. 



Toes divided. 



CINEREOUS BOAT-BILL.— Pl. cxliv. 



Cancroma Cochlearia, Ind.Orn.W. 671. Lin. i. 233. Gm.Lin.'x. 617. Barowsk. iii. 



106. Mus. Lev. t. 10. Nat. Misc. pl. 713. 

 Cochlearius, Bris. v. 506. Id. 8vo. ii. 344. 

 Der Kahnschnabel, Schmid, Vog. p. 117. t. 103. 



Le Savacou, Buf. vii. 443. pl. 23. Pl. enl. 38. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. cii. 

 Boat-bill, Gen. Syn. v. 26. pl. 76. Brown, III. 92. pl. 36. 



SIZE of a Fowl ; length twenty-two inches. Bill four inches 

 long, and of a singular form, not unlike a boat with the keel upper- 

 most ; or, as some think, like the bowls of two spoons, placed with 

 the hollow parts together ; the upper mandible has a prominent 

 ridge at the top, and on each side of this a long channel, at the 

 bottom of which are the nostrils ; these are oval, and situated ob- 

 liquely ; the general colour of the bill is dusky; in some specimens 

 dark brown; the parts between the bill and eye bare and dusky; 

 under jaw capable of distension ; from the hindhead springs a long 

 black crest, the feathers of which are narrow, and end in a point; 

 in general the middle ones are six inches in length, the others lessen 

 by degrees, the outer ones being not more than one inch ; but in 

 some specimens these long crest feathers reach quite to the back ; 

 plumage on the forehead white; the rest pale bluish ash-colour. 



