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THE NATURAL HISTORY 
CARUNCULATED CHATTERER, 
It is about twelve inches in length, the pluma^j 
a pure white, the bill black, an inch and half i n [ 
length ; at the bafe is a flefhy fubftance, like that! 
or the tur key, except that it is flaccid, and pen-l 
dulous, when the bird is in a flate of repofe, but 
when it is agitated, this flefhy fubftance fwells, 
lengthens to the extent of two inches, and becomes 1 
eredl in confcquence of the air which is forced 
into it through the opening of the palate. The 
cry of the Carunculated Chatterer is very loud, 
and feems compofed merely of two fyllables, ang, 
bjj, pronounced in a drawling manner. It inhabits 
Brazil and Cayenne. 
G E N u s 71. L O X I A. 
The beak is convex above and below, flrong and verr 
thick at the bafe. 
The lower mandible infle£fcd, with a lateral margin. 
The tongue, as if cut off at the end. 
The COMMON CROSS BILL. 
The two mandibles crofs each other different; 
wavs, at the point ; but it is very Angular, that 
in lome the lower mandible croftts to the left, and I 
in 
