Part! Of Water-Foreles. 
Yet the fame Author faith. That this Bird buildeth her 
Ned of Cotton-Wooll, and layeth Eggs. That a Cater- 
filler fliould produce a Bird 5 and a Butterfly too, the like • 
and yet tins Bird lay Eggs to produce its own kind, are 
three greater wonders than any thing that hath been faid 
of the Barnacle. But we will rather fuppofc thefe men 
were themfelves deceived, than that they defigned to de¬ 
ceive others. 
CHAP. II. 
Of W AT E R-F OWLES, particularly, of the 
Cloven-Footed. 
r T“'Hc HEAD of the JABIRU. The Bird is defcribed 
- by Marggravius , Pifo, and Willoughby. He is bigger 
than a Swan. I will take leave to defcribe the Bill a little 
more fully. 
Tis above a foot and * long; The Skull about three 
inches, and two broad. The Bill black, 13 inches long, 
an inch and ? broad underneath. Both the Beaks are 
bended upwards and crooked all along. The upper, an 
inch and 3 high, confiding of one triangular Bone, having 
a fharp Ridge on the top, and is lharp-pointed. Its hin¬ 
der edges are carved with oblique Furrows or Grooves. 
The Nodrils ; an inch long, an inch and i before the eyes. 
The nether Beak an inch high, and concave, but one 
Bone, or if you pleafe, two joyned together for the length 
of half a foot from the point. 
The obliaile Furrows in the Margins of the upper Beak, 
are a lingular Contrivance of Nature, not only here, but 
in many other Birds, for the more fafe reception of the 
nether Beak; vidt. lead it fliould go awry either With¬ 
in or without the upper, as often as it is forceably pull’d 
to it, and fo caufe a didocation, or a drain. 
Another HEAD of the fame kind and bignefs. 
The HEAD of an INDIAN HERON. I meet nei¬ 
ther with the Animal nor with the Head any where de¬ 
fcribed, or figur’d. The Skull is about three inches fquare. 
The 
