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cupied in fpinning cotton which grows in their ifland, 
and manufacturing it into ftockings or cloths. An un¬ 
inhabited fhoal, to which the Myconites fend flocks, af¬ 
fords a good anchorage a league, eaft of Myconi: it is' 
called 1 'ragoniji, or He-goat Ifland, becaufe it formerly; 
in all probability, contained both he and flue goats ; but 
none are now feen there. Lower, and a iijtle farther 
from Myconi, are two points of arid rocks, which the 
Greeks call “ Stapodia,” and the navigators 41 The Two 
Brothers.” Lat. 37. 27. N. Ion. 25. 23. E. 
■ MYCO'NI, a town or village on the weft coafl: of the 
fore-mentioned ifland. Mr. Galt, who viftted it in 1810, 
lays, “ This is a neat place for its extent; and more like 
a Chriftian town of the fame fr/.e, than any that I have 
yet feen in the Levant. It is fuppofed to contain between 
four and five thonfand inhabitants, and upwards of eight 
hundred inhabited houfes. Since the better days of Ve¬ 
nice, Myconi has been a place of confiderabie trade; 
being, in fome degree, the parent of Specia, Lira, and 
Ipfera. The moft confiderabie and the molt celebrated 
production of Myconi is its red wine, of which about five 
hupdred pipes are made annually. The quality refem- 
bles that of claret; but the inhabitants have a way of 
making different kinds ; and, as the clarety is the moft 
expenfive to them, they will rather cheat you than give 
it genuine. When the grapes are called and prelfed, 
while yet frefit from the vineyard, the claret-flavour of the 
wine is obtained in its greateft perfection. By drying the 
grapes in the fun, the other forts, and which Hand the 
moil watering, are produced. When the grapes are too 
much dried, the wine becomes l’weer, and, to my palate, 
very odious. By their original capitulation with the 
Turks, the inhabitants of Myconi enjoy the right of 
drooling their own magiftrates, and of otherwife regu¬ 
lating the internal economy of the ifland. Lat. 37. 26. N. 
Ion. 25. 20. E. 
MYC'TERES, f. in anatomy, the noftrils. Ajh. 
MYCTE'RIA, the Jabiru, f. in ornithology, a genus 
of birds belonging to the order of grail re. Generic cha¬ 
racters—Bill long, bending upwards, and flrarp ; upper 
mandible triangular; the noftrils fmall and linear; there 
is no tongue, or a very fmall one ; and the feet have four 
toes. There are four fpecies. 
1. MyCteria Americana, the American jabiru : white, 
with the quill and tail feathers purplifh black ; head and 
neck naked and black; the occiput whitiih ; a red zone 
round the lower part of the neck ; bill and legs black. 
This bird in iize yields only to the oftrich, being not 
lefs than fix feet high. The bill is thirteen inches long, 
flout, black, and not unlike that of a flork, and bends 
upwards ; the whole plumage is white, except the head, 
and about two-thirds of the neck, which are bare of fea¬ 
thers, and of a blackifli colour ; the remainder is alfo 
bare, and of a fine red : on the hind-head are a few greyilh 
feathers. The legs are flrong, of a great length, and 
covered with black fcales : wings and tail even at the 
end. This bird is found in all the favannas of Cayenne, 
Guiana, and other parts of South America. It makes its 
nefl in great trees, which grow on the borders; lays two 
eggs, and brings up the young in the nefl: till they can 
defcehd to the earth. The colour of the young birds is 
grey ; the lecond year it changes to role-colour, and the 
third to pure white: their food is filh ; and they are faid 
to be very voracious, taking great quantities of fifli to 
fatisfy them. In their nature they are very wild. The 
fiefh of the young is good to eat. 
M. Bajon thinks this bird is the American oftrich of 
feverai authors; arid'Mia Latham feems to be of the fame 
Opinion, for many reafons ; particularly from the very 
great flmilarity of names in the birds quoted by au¬ 
thors, viz. Nhdudhuguami , for the oftrich of America, by 
Marcgrave ; jabiru-guacn, and vhandhu-ajjoti, for a greater 
jabiru ; again, jabiru , for a linaller fpecies. Thefe names 
ieem to run much into one another; the lalt is alio, .ac- 
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cording to Barrere, called aouaron by the inhabitants of 
Guiana. This author alfo likens the liliakdfiugiutcu, or 
the fuppofed oftrich of America, to a crane. It feems, 
however, to have gained univerfally the name of oftrich 
by the Europeans, but unfortunately fcarcely any two 
have given the fame account: Marcgrave fays, it has three 
toes furnifhed with claws forwards, and one without a 
claw behind ; Fermin, that it has only two toes, joined 
by a membrane; but, Bajon allures us that it has four, 
all placed as in the heron-tribe; and this will appear to 
be the faCt by infpeCting the annexed Plate, fig. 1. 
2. MyCteria Aliatica, the Indian jabiru: white ; band 
over the eyes, lower part of the back, quill and tail-fea¬ 
thers, black ; bill blackifli, upper mandible gibbous at 
the bale, lower tumid beneath ; legs fkfn-colour. Inha¬ 
bits the Eaft Indies : feeds 011 fheli-fifh. 
3. MyCteria Novce Holiandia, the New Holland jabiru : 
body above purplifli-green ; beneath, neck, and fhoulders, 
white ; head purplifli, fpotted with white; neck feathered; 
irids yellow; firft quill-feathers white; tail black and 
white; bill black; legs red. Inhabits New Holland. 
Defcribed by Dr. Turton, from a fpecimen in theLeverian 
Mufeum,'which, however,'fays Dr. Shaw, feems not to 
have attained to its full iize, lince it falls ihort of the 
meafurements marked in fome drawings executed in 
New Holland from the recent bird. This fpecies is fliown 
at fig. 2. 
. .4- MyCteria Senegalenfis, the Senegal jabiru: white; 
bill red towards the tip, whitiih towards the bafe, with a 
black tranfverfe band and a tranfparent fpot on each fide. 
This is defcribed, in the 5th vol. of the Linn. Tranf. by 
the late Dr. Shaw, but only from a fkin which was received 
from Mr. Brygr of Weymouth. It was faid to be a native 
of Senegal. The length, from the tip of the bill to the 
ends of the claws, was fix feet two inches; the bill was 
thirteen inches in length, which is alfo the meafure of 
that of the common or American jabiru ; the neck fifteen 
inches ; the body twelve inches; the naked part of the 
thigh eleven inches; the feathered or fielliy part four 
inches; the knee-joint one inch; the leg thirteen inches 
and a half; the foot, to the tip of the middle toe, five 
inches and a half; the two outfide toes are about an inch 
fhorter than the middle one; the back toe fcarcely quite 
two inches. A very flight approach towards a femipal- 
mated appearance takes place at the firft joint: the claws 
are fmall and blunt. The bill is pale or whitifli at the 
bale for near three inches from the fetting-on of the 
upper mandible, and one inch and a half from the lower: 
then fucceeds a broad black zone acrofs both mandibles, 
about three inches wide; well defined on the back part, 
but fomewhat irregular in front. From this part the bill 
is pale, with a flight eaft of reddifti for about two inches, 
and from thence grows intenfely red or of a vermilion 
colour to the tip ; on each fide the upper mandible is 
a large femi-oval and femi-tranfparent lpace, which, at 
its back part, is continued upwards in a curved direction 
acrofs the fore part of the eye. A little way down the 
upper part of the bill runs a bare flattened part, fomewhat 
in the manner of the cere in the Fulicac and other birds 
of that tribe. The whole head and neck are black, and 
covered with feathers, which, on the head, feem to have 
been fmall and femi-fetole on the front, but fomewhat 
longer and larger on the occiput. Thofe on the neck 
are ovate-lanceolate, and of the ufual ItruCture, or as in 
the generality of birds. The plumage of the breaft, back, 
thighs, &c. are alfo of the ufual ftruefure, but much more 
inclining to a rounded than lanceolate form. The wings 
were wanting: the Ihoulders alone remaining, for about 
the length of four inches; they were covered with white 
feathers; the fcapulars, which were left on each fide, were 
black, with whitiih bafes ; they were about fifteen inches 
in length. The whole remainder of the bird was white. 
The tail was entirely wanting. Beneath the bale of the 
bill, on the ikinny or gular part, were fituated two very 
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