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Horn, to the length of * of a foot. Yet not Bended up- 
ward, as in that of Bontiw , but (landing horizontal 
It is fpongy behind, and hollow before $ fo that it is very 
light, although fo big. The Bird defcnbed by Bontivs, and 
probably this alfo, breeds in Bantam and Molucca. 
The nether BEAK of the RHINOCEROS Bird. If 
we believe, faith Georg. de Sepibus? (a) the Reverend Fa- (a) m\ 
thers, which are us d to go to the Indies 5 the Bill of this um Rorr 
Bird is a moft precious Antidote againft all manner of 
Poifons. For which caufe alfo , the Indian Kings pre- 
ferve it as a great Treafure, and account it a Royal 
Prefent. 
The HEAD of the CftOWfJED CROW Mr. Wii~ 
lugbby pictures it. But I meet with the Defcription here- 
of no where. Tis almoft a foot long. The Skull not above 
two inches and l » long, above two broad, and as high. The 
Bill likewife as broad. The nether Beak an inch and * 
high, one forked Bone, in the lhape of the Os Hyoides in 
a Bird, hooked or bended downward, the edges indented 
like a Saw 3 but with the points of the Teeth directed for- 
ward. The upper Beak an inch and ^ high, coniirteth of 
one concamerated Bone, bended downwards, and Toothed 
as the other. To this and the Skull, grows a fquare horny- 
Crown, about fix inches long, three and * over, and one 
and ? high, fpongy behind, and hollow before. The 
Noftrils, which are about ? of an inch wide, open between 
the Eye and the top of the Bill. 
The Teeth of the Bill, not being made to point inward, 
but forward or outward, plainly fhews, that they ferve not; 
as they do in fome other Birds, to hold fait the Prey 5 but 
rather, for fome purpofe or other, to perform the ufe of a 
Saw. 
The HEAD of the TOUCAN, fo called by the Indians: 
From the noifehe makes, Aracari. (b) And Pica Brafilien- r h) m 
fis, for the likenefs of both their Tails, (c) In the Mufoeum U) Will 
Romanum, this and the Rhinoceros Avis, are confounded; 
They breed not only in Brafile? but alfo in Gjiajana^ and 
other places. This Bill was fent from Peru, See the 
Defcription of the Bird in Mr. Willughbys Omithologia; 
That which is moft remarkable of him, is, that his Bill is 
almoft as big as his Body, which is not much bigger than 
I 2 tha? 
