338 ani. 



means of hindering the intent of sportsmen in respect to other game, 

 without making amends in their own flesh, which is rank and 

 unsavoury ; the only use we find any part of them put to, is their 

 bills, which are held by some as an antidote against poison, but the 

 negro girls are said to make with the birds love-potions. We are 

 told, that if these birds are brought up tame from the nest, they will 

 learn to articulate words, in the manner of the Parrot. 



2- GREATER ANI. 



Crotophaga major, Ind.Orn. i. 148. Bris. iv. 180. 1. 18. f. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 93. Gm. 



Lin.\. 363. Gerin.W. t.191. 

 Ani des Paletuviers, Buf. vi. 423. pi. 19. Salem. Orn. 73. 10. 

 Grand Bout de petun, PL enl. 102. f. 1. 

 L'Anno-guazu, Voy. d'Azara. iv. No. 265: 

 American Keel-bill, Shaiv's Zool. viii. 380. pi. 51. 

 Greater Ani, Gen. Spi. i. 362. 



THIS, though appealing at first sight greatly similar to the 

 former, differs from it materially ; it is about nineteen inches in 

 length, and larger in the body. The bill black, from gape to point 

 one inch and three quarters ; it is channelled on the sides, and high 

 ridged at the base, but lessens again to the point, which is a little 

 curved, and in this differs from the Lesser Species ; as in that bird, 

 the whole of the top of the upper mandible is semicircular, from 

 base to tip, and nearly regular the whole way ; the irides are green ; 

 the crown depressed ; plumage in general fine glossy steel blue ; 

 feathers of the neck, back, and wing coverts edged with fine glossy 

 green ; breast the same, but more obscure ; those of the head and 

 neck more narrow than the rest; tail cuneiform, the two middle 

 feathers ten inches long, the outer seven and a half, the colour fine 

 glossy steel blue; quills the same, glossed with green, and when 

 closed, reach more than half way on it ; legs black. 



