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Of Birds. 
Part I. 
The BILL of a BIRD, by the people of Brafile , called 
COA. It is of a blackilh-brown mixed with alh-colour. In 
lhape, and bignefs, very like that of the leaft fort of Parret 
called Perroqueets. He is faid to feed upon all manner of 
venimous things: and to be himfelf a Cordial. Which, 
if true, yet is it not to be much admir’d. For if by veni¬ 
mous things, be meant Animals that have a venimous 
bite ; Do we not know that the flclh of fuch Animals, 
as of Vipers, is efteemed a Cordial ? Or is it under- 
ftood of things that are Tot a [ubftantia Venimous, or at 
leaft malignant to humane Bodies, do not Ducks feed on 
living Toads ? Again, what is a Cordial ? are not many 
things fo call’d meerly from their collateral effect ? Car¬ 
dans Benedicius it felf, and other things given as fuch, 
Nature doth certainly abhor: but being able to caft them 
off, by Vomit or Sweat, and fo perhaps fomething elfe 
that offends her together with them, they are therefore 
called Cordials. 
A young LINET which being firft embowel’d, hath 
been preferved found and entire,in rectified Spirit of Wine, 
for the fpace of 17 years. Given by the Honourable 
Mr. Boyl. Who, fo far as I know, was the firft that made 
trial of preferving Animals this way. An Experiment of 
much ufe. As for the preferving of all forts of Worms, 
Caterpillars, and other foft Infects in their natural bulk 
and lhape, which otherwife lhrink up, fo as nothing can 
be obferved of their parts after they are dead. So alfo to 
keep the Guts, or other foft parts of Animals, fit for often 
repeated Infpcctions. And had the Kings or Phyfitians of 
Egypt thought on’t, in my Opinion, it had been a much 
better way of making an everlafting Mummy. 
A young CHICKEN emboweled and put into rectified 
Oil of Turpentine, at the fame time, with the Linet, and 
preferved found ; Only there is a little fedement at the 
bottom of the Glafs. 
The HEAD of the HUMGUM , or Horned-Crow 5 
called RHINOCEROS Avis. It was brought from the 
E.aji Indies. ’Tis of kin to that deferibed by Bontius. 
Mr. Willoughby gives the Picture, but no Defcnption. It 
hath a Crown on the top of the Bill, of the fame colour 
and fubftance therewith, and prolonged in the lhape of a 
Horn, 
