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the beak is fix inches long, and is ftraight all the way, till near the extremity, where 
it is a little crooked : the noftrils are oblong and large, and the lower part of the 
beak is hollow : the bafe of it is of a deep black, and the reft is alfo blackifh, but 
there runs a tinge of olive through it. 
The head and the upper part of the neck are naked; there are no feathers in them, 
but the fkin is fquammofe, and of a grey colour: the top of the head is ornamented 
with a creft of a very fingular appearance; it is of a bony ftrudture, and of a mixed 
grey and white colour: the whole body is white; the wings are large, and their long 
feathers are of a very beautiful deep and gloffy black, but with a glow of purple 
fhining through it: the tail is very fhort and black. 
The legs are long and robuft; they are naked half way above the joint of the knee; 
and are of a deep fhining black: the toes are long, robuft, and black. 
This is a native of the Brafils, where it is efteemed very delicate at table. The na¬ 
tives call it Jabiru Guacu, and, in fome places, Nhandu Apoa; the Dutch call it 
Scurvagel. Moft of the modern writers on birds have defcribed it after Marcgrave, 
who gives it under thefe names. 
Ardea cinerea fufco variegata , crifta plumofa variegata, 5 Cf )t 
The grey Ardea , variegated with brown, in a feathered creft . C&tfefttH* 
This is a beautiful bird, and is extreamly different from all the former ; it is about 
three feet high, as it ftands ered; it’s body is about equal to that of a well-grown 
pullet, and the legs and neck are very long, and much lefs robuft than in the feveral 
preceding fpecies. 
The head is large, and of a rounded figure; neither depreffed on the crown, nor 
flatted at all at the Aides: the eyes are large ; their iris is yellow, and the pupil black : 
the beak is fhort, in comparifon with that of the generality of the birds, and is ftraight 
all the way, to near the extremity, where it turns up a little : it is of a deep, dulky, 
yellow colour, and the noftrils are blackifh, oblong, large, and very confpicuous. 
The neck and body are elegantly coloured ; the ground colour is a deep iron grey, 
but this is variegated with fpots of brown, and of a bright yellow,, in the manner of 
the backs of feveral of our hawk-kind : the head is grey, with a fmaller admixture of 
the brown or yellow ; and on the front, juft beyond the bafe of the beak, there ftands 
a large and elegant creft, not of a bony ftrudture, and naked, as in the preceding 
fpecies, but compofed of a great number of elegant feathers; it carries this bred, and 
it’s ground colour is the fame grey with that of the body, but it is elegantly and very 
deeply variegated with black. 
The wings are very large; the tail is fhort; it juft appears beyond the tips of the 
wings, when they are clofed : the covering feathers of the wings and tail are of the 
fame variegated hue with thofe of the body, but the long feathers of each are Amply 
brown, fo that they appear both of a deep and unmixed brown at their extremities. 
The legs are very long and yellow: the toes are long, but not very robuft: the 
hinder one is fmall; and ftands very high up, at a confiderable diftance from the reft. 
This is a native of the Brafils, where it’s flefh is efteemed a great delicacy. It fre¬ 
quents watery places, but it feeds only on vegetables. It’s note is loud, and like that 
of the peacock. Marcgrave has defcribed it under the name of Cariama, and moft 
others have followed him in this. 
Ardea 
