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Birds, and the Skua Gulls. Sometimes they feed 
on grafs, and on water weeds, and the roots of 
reeds. - E: 
One kind of Spoonbill is of a rofe colour; and 
there is another found in Surinam, dufky upon 
the back, and white upon the ftomach, and about 
the fize of a Sparrow. 
GENUS 42. PALAMEDEA, 
THe SCREAMER. 
The bill is conic, and the upper mandible crooked. 
The noftrils are oval. 
It has four toes, divided almoft to their beginning, 
with a fmall membrane between the bottoms of each. 
HE Horned Screamer is about the fize of 
a Turkey. Avhorn {prings from the crown 
of his head about three inches long, and pointed 
. . . . 
at the end: each wing is armed with two ftrong 
fpurs, fhort, horny, and yellow—Yet the Scream- 
ers never attack birds, for they are of a very 
gentle nature. They go in pairs, and are fo fond 
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