Y 7 6 0%t3\ClTH0L0gV. Book III. 



Chap, IIIJ 



* Jabktt guacu of the Tetigmres, Nhandu apoa of the Tufmambi, ScurvogeJ 



, of the Low Dutch, 



IT hath a great Bill, feven inches and ah half long, round at the end, and bending 

 downward. It wants the Tongue, and the lower Bill is grey. On the top of 

 the Head it hath a bony Miter or Crown, of a colour mixt of white and cinereous. 

 The Eyes are black, and behind them large Ear-holes. The Neck is ten inches long, 

 the upper half whereof, together with the Head, is not covered with feathers, but 

 with a fcaly afh-coloured skin, whofe fcales are white. In bulk of body it equals a 

 Stork^: It hatha fhort, black Tail, reaching no further than the ends of the Wings. 

 The upper Legs [_ or Thighs ~] are covered partly with white feathers, elfe the whole 

 Legs are afh-coloured 3 the upper being eight inches long, the lower fix, or a little 

 more. There are four Toes in each foot, fo difpofed as in the former. The whole 

 Body and Neck are covered with white feathers. Long feathers hang down from the 

 Neck and abcragjt. The Wings are white 5 their quil-feathers black, with a glofs of 

 a Ruby colouK^They flay the skin off this bird, and eat the fleftl boiled or roafted. 

 It is fat, dry, "and welkafted, efpecially if it be fried with butter. I have eaten of it 

 often. 



Chap. IV. 

 The Brafilian Cariama of Marggraye* 



THis is a Water-fowl of the bignefs of the greater Heron. On its Head above the 

 rife of its Bill it carries a creft or tuft of feathers, Handing upright, of a black 

 mingled with an afh-colour. The Bill is fhort, the upper part a little hooked, 

 brown, with a tindure of dark yellow. It hath elegant golden Eyes, with a black 

 Pupil, and long, black Eye-brows. The Wings end a little behind the rife of the 

 Tail. It hath long Legs, above covered half Way with feathers, elfe naked, and of 

 a dark yellow colour : Three Toes in each foot, the middlemofl the longeft, the 

 outer fhorter than that, and the inner the fhorteft , connected partly by a skin inter- 

 vening. Behind, or on the backfide the foot it hath a fmall Toe, fet higher than is 

 ufual, and a round heel like an Ofirkh. The Claws are fhort, hooked, dusky. The 

 whole Body is covered with grey or afh-coloured feathers, waved with brown, as in 

 Falcons, and a dark yellow intermingled. The ends of the Wings and Tail are brown, 

 waved with a dark yellow and grey. In the Breaft and lower Belly it hath more 

 grey. It carries its Tail low, its Neck high. Its cry is like a Urn-Turkeys, and is heard 

 afar off. It is very good meat. 



C H A P,* V. 



The Braftlian Anhima of Marggraye. 



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IT is a Water-fowl of the rapacious kind, bigger than a Swan. Its Head is notgrear, 

 like a Hens 5 its Bill black} the upper Chap whereof is fomething longer than 

 the nether, and turning downward at the tip. It hath fair, golden Eyes, with a 

 black Pupil, and a black circle without. On the Head near the rife of the Beak it 

 carries an ered horn, bending forward at point, a little more than two inches long, of 

 the bignefs of the greater ftring in a bafe Viol 5 round as though it were turned, of 

 a white or bone colour. About the horn fraud up very fine, fhort, black and white 

 feathers. Its Neck is feven inches long, the reft ofMts Body to the rife of its Tail al- 

 moft a foot and half. It hath very lai ge Wings 5 the greater feathers being above a 

 * Spurs they foot and half long. In the forepart of each Wing are two ftreight triangular * horns, 



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