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The Abou Hannes has a beak ihaped like that of a cur- 

 lew, two-thirds of which is ftraight, and the remaining 

 third crooked ; the upper part of a green, horny fubftance, 

 and the lower black. From the occiput to where it joins 

 the beak is four inches and a half. Its leg, from the lower 

 joint of the thigh to the foot, is fix inches, the bone round 

 and ilrong, according to the remark of Cicero, and from 

 the lower joint of the thigh, to where it joins the body, is 

 five inches and a half.. The height of the body as it Hands, 

 from the fole of its foot to the middle of the back, is nine- 

 teen inches. The aperture of the eye is one inch. Its feet 

 and legs are black ; has three toes before, armed with fharp, 

 ftraight claws i it has a toe alio behind. Its head is brown, 

 and the fame colour reaches down to the back, or where 

 the back joins with the neck. Its throat is white, fo are 

 its breaft, back, and thighs. The largeft feathers of its 

 wings are a deep black for thirteen inches from the-tail, 

 and from the extremity of the tail, fix inches up the back 

 is black likewife.. 



Now the mea fares of the beak, the tibia, the thigh-bone, 

 and the fcull, compared with the mod perfect of the em- 

 balmed birds taken from the mummy pits, do agree in every 

 thing as exactly as can be expected. Thejtength of the beak 

 in my drawing feems to exceed that of the embalmed bird, 

 but I will not be pofitive ; this fmall error is not in the de- 

 fign, though the white feathers are fcorched in the em- 

 balmed birds, yet there is no difficulty in perceiving the 

 colour diitinctly ; there is lefs in diftinguifhing the black 

 upon the wings and above its rump. The meaiure of both 

 fo exactly agree that they can fcarccly be miftaken. 



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