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edge-like wedge towards the point of the 
Bill. The general colour of the whole is 
a light horn-colour : the bafe of the lower 
mandible is a little tinged with red : the 
bafe of both the horn and bill is black, as 
are the toothed edges of both mandibles : 
the point of the upper mandible, and the 
end of the horn next it, are alfo black: the 
noftrils are placed between the bill and 
horn near the bafe of the bill : it is pretty 
thick near its bafe, but compreffed fide- 
ways near the point. Petiver, in his Ga- 
zophyl. Nat. et Artis, has given the figure 
of the upper mandible and horn of this 
Bird; fee plate 31, fig. 1, he fays, father 
Kamel fent him this defign with his ma- 
nufcript of Philippine Birds, now printed 
in the Philosophical Tranfadtions, No. 285. 
Petiver has alfo given a figure of the whole 
Bird, though fomething inaccurately; fee 
the fame work, plate 28, fig. 6. The Bill 
I have given is drawn diredtly from nature. 
I find in books of Natural Hiftory a great 
variety of Beaks of this family of Birds, 
though we know hardly any thing of the 
Birds themfelves. My friend Mr. Henry 
Baker, F. R. S. &c. lent me this laft de- 
icribed Beak. 
C is the Beak of a Bird unknown to us: 
it was lent me by the obliging Mr. Furzer, 
of New-Inn, London, who told me it was 
brought from the ifland of Sumatra, in the 
Eaft Indies, where it is called the Friendly 
Wood-bird, as its Indian name imports; 
and that it defends men from danger when 
they fleep in the woods. This feems to 
belong to a genus of Birds different from 
the two laft above defcribed ; the knob 
above the bill being of a flattifh convex 
form forward, where it is of a whitifh co- 
lour, the reft of the knob being red : the 
whole bill is very heavy, the knob Teeming 
to be of folid bone : the noftril is feen in 
the figure behind the knob : the bill is of a 
dirty whitifh colour towards the point, 
; 2 ) 
ajfez large et e'pais vers la tete, et trenchant 
vers le bout , en forme de coin . "Tout le Bee , 
en general, eft d'un couleitr de come clair : la 
bafe de la machoire inferieure eft un peu teinte 
de rouge: la bafe , tant du bee que de la come, 
eft noire : les bords denteles des deux mdchoires 
font noirs : la point e de la machoire fupdri- 
eure eft de la me me couleur , auffi bien que le 
bout anterieur de la come: les nafeaux font 
plach entre le bee et la come , pres de la bafe 
du bee , qui eft ajfez epais vers la baje , tnais 
comprime de cote vers la pointe . Petiver a 
donne la figure de la machoire fuperieure et de 
la come de cet Oifeau *. II dit que le pere 
Kamel lui avoit envoye ce defjein avec Jon ma - 
nufeript des Oifeaux des iftes Philippines , qui 
ejl d prefent imprime dans les TranfaBions 
Philofophiques Petiver a aujji donne une 
figure de tout l' Oifeau, mais peu exaBe §. 
Le Bee que je donne a ete define immediate - 
ment d’apres nature . On trouve dans les 
livres d'Hiftoire Nat ur die une grande variete 
de Bees de cette f ami lie d' Oifeaux, quoique 
nous ne connoifions prejque point les Oijeaux 
menus . Mr. H. Baker , Membre de la Societd 
Roy ale, ni a prete ce Bec~ct. 
Le Bee marque C eft dim Oifeau qui nous 
eft inconnu : je le tiens de M. Furzer, de la 
Nouvelle Cour a Londres, qui me la oblige - 
amment prete, et qui m' a dit qu'il venoit de 
Pijle de Sumatra dans les Indes Orient ales, ou 
on I'appelle d'un nom qui ftgnijie en langage du 
pays I Oifeau amical des bois , parce quil de- 
fend et gar antit de danger ceux qui s'endor - 
ment dans les forets : il paroit appartenir d 
une clajfe differ ente des deux dont on a donne 
la defeription ci-defus : puifque le bouton du 
defies du bee ejl d'une forme convexe applatie 
en devant, ou il ef d'une couleur blanchdtre : 
* Petiver Gazophyl. Nat. et Art. pi. 31, fig, 1. 
f No. 285. 
$ Petiver, ibid. pi. 28. fig. 6, 
