

PeR BARRIAAGT Me: 
_ Birds, and the Skua Gulls. Sometimes they feed. 
_ on grafs, and on water weeds, and hee : 
reeds." 2° Z 
One kind of Spoonbill i is 268 a rofe colour; and 
there is another found in Surinam, dutky upon 
_ the back, and white upon the ftomach, saath about | 
the fize of a Sparrow. - 
ec San SEITE. Oo PMN te ase 
Genus 42 PALAMEDEA. 
Tae SCR EAMER 
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The bill ts conic, and the upper mandible coals -d. 
The nolfirils are oval. 
 -‘Tt has four toes, divided almoft to their beginning, 
with a {mall membrane between the bottoms of each, 7 
HE Horned BSeaomte is shai the fize of 
a Turkey. A horn {prings from the crown | 
of his head about three inches long, and_pointed . 
at the end: each wing is armed with two ftrong 
fours, 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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