64 Of Water-Fowles. Part I. 
The Bill above * of a foot long. The upper Beak from 
edge to edge near two inches over. Conhfts of one Bone, 
Triangular or Ridged at the top, a little crooked down¬ 
ward, Concave, and fharp-pointed. Its hinder Margins 
are obliquely furrow’d, as in the Jabiru. The nether Beak 
underneath two inches and '* over. Confifteth of two 
Bones, joyned together for the length of not above an 
inch and i from the point, which is not above a fourth 
part of the length of Conjunction in the Jabiru. The 
edges of both the Beaks run along in a ftrait line. 
Of the ufe of the oblique Burrows, before. According 
to the length of the faid Conjudtion of the bones of the 
nether Beak from the point, the Bird may be conjectur’d 
more or lefs voraceous. For by how much this is the 
fhorter, by fo much more may the Skin of the Beak be 
dilated for the comprehending of the greater Prey: as is 
more remarkable in the Telecati. 
The HEAD of an INDIAN STORK. I find not the 
Bird, nor the Head, any where defcrib’d, or figur’d. The 
Skull is four inches high, and almoft fquare. The Skin 
of the Neck, as it is fluff’d up and ftretched out with 
Wooll, is a foot about 5 ftanding out with a bunch in the 
ufual place of the Crop. The Bill it felf is above a foot 
long: and three inches and 3 high. The upper Beak, from 
edge to edge, two inches over 5 is one triangular, and 
fharp-pointed Bone, ridged at the top, and a little crooked 
downward5 but with ftrait Margins , and obliquely fur¬ 
row’d behind, as in the Jabiru. The Noftrils * of an 
inch long, and two inches before the Eyes. The ne¬ 
ther Beak confifteth of two Bones joyned together for the 
length of three inches from the point 3 the edges whereof 
are a little crooked upwards. Underneath, above two 
inches over. The edges of both the Beaks are made 
rough, like a Saw, with numerous fmall and oblique Inci- 
fions directed backward, or looking towards the Throat. 
The fame oblique and fmall Incifions are vifible in the 
Bills of divers other Birds of the Rapacious kind 3 in all 
made for the more fecure retention of the Prey. 
Of our European Storks , feveral of the Parts are ufed 
in Medicine, at leaft put into the Materia Medica 5 as the 
Stomach, Gall, Fat, and Dung. Of the fame alfo are 
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