Part 1. Of Water JF owlet. 
Yet the fame Author faith, That this Bird buildeth her 
Neft of Cotton- Wooll, and layeth Eggs. That a Cater- 
filler (hould produce a Bird $ and a Butterfly too, the like $ 
and yet this Bird lay Eggs to produce its own kind, are 
three greater wonders than any thing that hath been faid 
of the Barnacle. But we will rather fuppofe thcfe men 
were themfelves deceived, than that they defigned to de- 
ceive others. 
CHAP. II. 
Of tV AT E R-F 0 W L E S, particularly, of the 
Cloven-Footed. 
THe HEAD of the JABIRU. The Bird is defcribed 
by Marggraviut, Pifo, and Willoughby. He is bigger 
than a Swan. I will take leave to defcribe the Bill a little 
more fully. 
Tis above a foot and ? long $ The Skull about three 
inches^ and two broad. The Bill black, 13 inches long, 
an inch and * broad underneath. Both the Beaks are 
bended upwards and crooked all along. The upper, an 
inch and I high, confiding of one triangular Bone, having 
a fharp Ridge on the top, and is fharp-pointed. Its hin- 
der edges are carved with oblique Furrows or Grooves. 
The Noftrils § an inch long, an inch and I before the eyes. 
The nether Beak an inch high, and concave , but one 
Bone, or if you pleafe, two joyned together for the length 
of half a foot from the point. 
The oblique Furrows in the Margins of the upper Beak, 
are a fingular Contrivance of Nature, not only here, but 
in many other Birds, for the more fafe reception of the 
nether Beak 5 vidt. leaft it Ihould go awry either with- 
in or without the upper, as often as it is forceably pulfd 
to it, and fo caufe a diflocation, or a {train, 
Another HEAD of the fame kind and bignefs, 
The HEAD of an INDIAN HERON. I meet nei- 
ther with the Animal nor with the Head any where de- 
fcribed, or figurU The Skull is about three inches fquare. 
The 
