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The falfe or upper beak is not folid, in that 
cafe it would be too heavy ; but it is formed of a 
light, {pongy fubftance, like the cells of a honey- 
comb. 3 
The Calaos (or Indian Ravens) which live in 
China, feed fometimes on carcafes, and, like the 
Vulture, they follow the hunters, 
Some kinds of the Buceros feed upon frogs and. 
lizards, and one kind has two horns. sane 
, One kind of the Calao has no knob or promi- 
nence on its beak, but it is very large, and in the 
form of a feythe. Inthe beak of the Calao of 
Manilla there is a flight eminence. It. is larger 
in the Calao of the ifland of Panay, ftill more con- 
_-. fiderable in the Calao of Malabar on the weftern 

coaft of India, and monftrous in the Calao 
Rhinoceros. | 
. A Calao from Malabar was kept at-Paris in a 
garden nearly a whole fummer; he was fed upon 
fruit and lettuces, but he would eat flefh and rats, 
and once he devoured a bird. 
The Calao Rhinoceros hunts rats, and feeds 
upon them; and for this reafon he is braught up 
tame in the Eaft-Indies. 
The legs of all the Calaos are fo fhort, that 
they walk very awkwardly. 
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