45 ^ The Hiftory ^/ANIMALS. 
The head is a little flatted at the Tides, and rounded, not at all deprefled, on the 
top: on the crown there hands a moft Angular and elegant tuft of bridles, in form of 
a creft: they are very numerous, and fpread every way To, as to form a round flgure 
in the whole ; they very much refemble the briftles of a hog in thicknefs, and are of 
a deep brown colour, with a flight tinge of yellowiftf: on each fide of the head there 
is a fpot of white, which terminates in a red line ; and under the bafe of the beak 
there is a red flefliy appendage, in form of the wattles of the turkey-cock, only 
fmaller. 
The whole bird is of a coal-black colour, except that fome of the fmaller of the 
long feathers of the wings are white : the wings are very large j and the tail is very 
fhort and inconflderable, and is totally black : the legs are of a deep olive colour, ap¬ 
proaching to black, and are naked a great way above the knees. 
This Angular fpecies is a native of the Cape Verde iflands, and fome other places ; 
it is frequent there in all the watery places, and has a way of ufing it’s wings to aflift 
it in running, which it does with great rapidity. All the authors who have written 
on birds have defcribed it. Aldrovand calls it Grus Balearica; and Ray, Willughby, 
Charleton, and moft of the moderns retain the fame name. I have met with it once 
fhewn as a curioftty in London, but it is not frequently feen alive in Europe. 
Ardea roftro longiore , capita nigricante , cor pore albido . 
The long-beaked Ardea ., with a black head y and a 
white body . 
This is a very large and very Angular bird, as it ftands eredt; it is five feet in height; 
the body is of the bignefs of that of a fwan : the legs are more than two feet in 
length, and the neck is long, in proportion : the head is large and rounded ; the eyes 
are large and black; the beak is very long, and conflderably broad and thick; it is 
ftraight all the way to the extremity, where it turns up a little : it is of a deep black, 
and of a glofly furface, only that the noftrils, which are oblong, are grey and rough. 
The head is black, and the upper part of the neck is alfo blackifh; this part is 
often naked, and the fkin is then feen to be perfe&ly black: when the feathers are on 
it, they are but few, but thofe on the neck are whitifti: the lower part of the neck is 
of a fnow-white, and fo is alfo the whole body of the bird, as well the back as the 
bread; and belly : the wings alfo are perfe&ly white, and their long feathers are of a 
brighter and purer white than any other part of the bird. 
The legs are long and very robuft; they are of a coal-black all the way to the 
joint, called the knee, and are naked alfo half way up the thigh, but they are there of 
a deep olive colour : the toes are very long and robuft, and are alfo black : the tail is 
very fhort, and does not appear beyond the tips of the wings, when they are clofed. 
This fpecies is a native of the Brafils, and of no other part of the world, fo far as 
is yet known. The natives call it Jabiru ; the Dutch give it the name of Negro. It 
lives about waters, and feeds on the water plants, and fometimes, though more 
rarely, on fifh. 
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Ardea alba 5 capite cinereo crifta ojfea ornato . 
The white Ardea , with a grey head\ a?td a 
white bony creft . 
This is an extreamly Angular bird, much more fo indeed than the former fpecies ; 
it is four feet and a half high, as it ftands eredt; it’s body is of the bignefs of that 
of a goofe, and the legs are very long, as is alfo the neck: the head is large and 
round $ the eyes are alfo large and black, and the apertures of the ears are very wide : 
