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Razor-bill’d Blackbird. Catejby Carol, app. III. the feet faultily Ex, 
expreffed. Le Bout de Petun, Brijfon IV. tab „ XVIII. 
Inhabits South America : Within the Tropics. 
Crotophagus of Linn^us and Brijfon IV. 177. from Kgohv, becaufe 
this genus feeds on ticks. Only II fpecies. Mr. Ray places it 
at the end of the Parrots. I retain the Brafilian name Ani. 
Bill, ftrong, thick, rounded at top ; convex. 
Nostrils, covered partly above with a flap 5 and near their ends 
with a tuft of feathers : On each fide of the bafe of the bill, a 
red, thin, flelhy membrane, or Wattle, of a round form. 
Tongue, truncated, fplit, ciliated. 
Tail, long and cuneiform. 
Legs and Feet, ftrong: the firft carinated behind. 
Toes, large ; three forward, we- backward. Claws, great and 
crooked, efpecially that of the hind toe. 
A non-defcript genus, as yet difcovered only in New Zeland . 
Bill, ftrong, upper mandible a little convex. Edges cul- XII. CROW, 
trated. 
Nostrils, covered with briftles reflected over them. 
Tongue, divided at the end. 
Toes, three forward, one backward, the middle joined to the out- 
moft as far as the firft joint. 
Royfton Crow, Br. ZooLfol. tab. D. I. E Xs 
Different fpecies found in every climate : clamorous : promifcuous 
feeders : build in trees : lay about fix eggs. 
dorvus of Linnaeus, who mentions XIX fpecies. 
Brijfon divides this genus into Coracias , or the Chough ; Corvus , 
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XI. WATTLE. 
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