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36 «THE NATURAL HISTORY 
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The Toucan’s teak ie very large, pple convex, and 
toothed like a faw on the edge, but irregularly. | 
The noftrils are behind the bafe of the beak, 
The tongue is fringed like a feather. 
In moft, two of its toes are placed before and two be- 
hind, for climbing. 
NE kind of ihe Power | i$ abou the tiie | 
of a Magpie, the head is very large, in 
order to fupport its bill; though the bill is very 
light, -and-not much thicker than parchment. _ 
. Between the head and the. bill is a black line, 
and there the noftrils are placed; but they are fo © 
covered with feathers, that fome have thought — 
that the Toucans breathed through their bine 
and had no noftrils at all. 
It lives chiefly upon the pimento, which it is 
~-very fond of, and it will eat fruit. 
A Toucan was brought up tame; it was fed 
in the fame manner as a Parrot; grapes were its. 
favourite food ; if they were pulled off the bunch 
and thrown into the air, it would catch them be-- 
fore they reached the ground, 
if 
