Part I. 
Of Birds. 
Horn, to the length of i of a foot. Yet not bended up¬ 
ward, as in that of Bontius , but (landing horizontal. 
It is fpongy behind, and hollow before 5 fo that it is very 
light, although fo big. The Bird defcnbed by Bontius, and 
probably this alfo, breeds in Bantam and Molucca. 
The nether BEAK of the RHINOCEROS Bird. If 
we believe, faith Georg, de Sepbm, (a) the Reverend Fa* Y 0 Mufc- 
thers, which are us’d to go to the Indies 5 the Bill of this ura Rotmn " 
Bird is a mod precious Antidote againft all manrier of 
Poifons. For which caufe alfo, the Indian Kings pre- 
ferve it as a great Treafure, and account it a Royal 
Prefent. 
The HEAD of the CROWNED CROW Mr. Wil- 
lughby pictures it. But I meet with the Defcription here¬ 
of no where. Tis almofl a foot long. The Skull not above 
two inches and i long, above two broad, and as high. The 
Bill likewife as broad. The nether Beak an inch and I 
high, one forked Bone, in the (hape of the Os Hyoides 111 
a Bird, hooked or bended downward, the edges indented 
like a Saw 5 but with the points of the Teeth directed for¬ 
ward. The upper Beak an inch and I high, confifteth of 
one concamerated Bone, bended downwards, and Toothed 
as the other. To this and the Skull, grows a fquare horny- 
Crown, about fix inches long, three and i over, and one 
and * high, fpongy behind, and hollow before. The 
Noftrils, which arc about ?of an inch wide, open between 
the Eye and the top of the Bill. 
The Teeth of the Bill, not being made to point inward, 
but forward or outward, plainly fhews, that they ferve not, 
as they do in fome other Birds, to hold fall the Prey 5 but 
rather, for fome purpofe or other, to perform the ufe of a 
Saw. 
The HEAD of the TOUCAN, fo called by the Indians. 
From the noife he makes, Aracari. (b ) And Pica Br aft lien~ ry , Plfo , 
fs, for the likenefs of both their Tails, (c) In the Mufaum ro Wilt 
Romanum , tins and the Rhinoceros Avis , are confounded. 0rn ‘ 
They breed not only in Brafde , but alfo in Guajana , and 
other places. This Bill was fent from Peru. See the 
Defcription of the Bird in Air. Willughbys Ornithologia. 
That which is moft remarkable of him, is, that his Bill is 
almoil as big as Ins Body, which is not much bigger than 
I 2 that 
