Sf. 81 Ras; 9 
‘The falfe or upper beak is not folid, in that 
cafe it would be too heavy ;. but it is formed of a 
light, fpongy Lape like the cells of a _— | 
~~ comb, 
The Calaos (or Indian ae which lve | 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. | 
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, {till more con- 
fiderable in the Calao of Malabar on’ the weftern — 
coaft of India, and monftrous in the Calao 
~ Rhinoceros. . ae 
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. 3 : 
The Calao Rhinoceros hunts rats, and feeds 
upon them; and for this reafon he is brought uP 
tame in the Eaft-Indies, 
‘The legs of all the Calaos are fo thst, thet 
po) ans very awkwardly. : 
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