( 5 ? 5 .) 
remarkable, The Figure of each Beak is truly Hyper- 
bolical : The upper Jaw is ridged behind, before plain 
or flat, and pointed like a Sword, with the Extremity 
bended a little downwards: Within it hath an Angle 
or (harp Ridge, which runs all along the Middle, at 
the Top of the Hyperbole, not above a quarter of an 
Inch high : The lower Beak in the fame Place above 
one Inch high, hollow, and the Margins flrangely ex- 
panded inward, for the Breadth of above a quarter of 
an Inch, and fomewhat convexly. They are both fur- 
nilhed with black Teeth, as I call them from their Ufe, 
of an unufual Figure, fcil. flender, numerous, and pa- 
rallel as in Ivory Combs; but alfo very fhort, fcarce the 
eighth Part of an Tnch deep. An admirable Invention 
of Nature, by the Help of which and of the lharp Ridge 
above-mentioned, this Bird holds his flippery Prey the 
fafter. 
Mr. Ray defcribes the Roftrum to be Utiufculum, fingu - 
laris & infold a figure ; mandibula nempe fuperior incur va, 
depre[fa, dent at a; inferior crajjior. , , ■ 
Menippus , the Cynick Philolopher, in a Fragment of 
his de Homine (which however at this Time is either 
loft, or at leaft hard to be come at) affirms this Bird 
to move its upper Jaw, as we find him quoted by (y) 
Rondcletius , where he is talking of the Crocodile’s mo- 
ving that Mandible: His Words are, fed id non foli ex 
omnibus animalibut Qrocodilo peculiar e, nam intro, Avss , 
Phcenicopterus fuperiorem partem Roflri movet , ut an • 
notavit Menippus Philofophus, Libro de Homine. 
Gefner makes the very fame Quotation from Ronde • 
letius. 
(z) Cardanus repeats the fame thing without Men- 
tion of any Author, nam quidam exifiimant etiam Phceni~ 
( y ) Rondel. Lib. de Amphibiis, Chap. 5 . 
(f) Cardan ■ de Varietate Rertim, Lib. 7 . Cap, 37 . 
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