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CHAP. This bird was killed at Port Jackfon, and we believe 
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blifhed genera. The make indeed is altogether that of an hornbill, and the edges 
of the mandible are fmooth, but the toes being placed two forwards and two back- 
wards, feem to rank it v/ith the Parrots or Toucans ; and it has been unlucky that 
in the fpecimen from which the dcfcription was taken, the tongue was wanting, 
which might in a great mcafurc have determined the point : but the inducement for 
placing it with the hornbilis has had the greater weight, as not a fmgle fpecies of 
the toucan tribe has yet been met with in that part of the world. 
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