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{4 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
. GENUS 43. MY CTERIA, 
(Tus JABIRU. 
The bill bends suds the upper mandible is triangu+ 
jar, or three-fided. 
The forehead is bare of Ste | 
The noftrils fmall, 
No tongue. 
| Four os divided. 
‘HE Jabiru is larger than the Stork, and | 
higher than the Crane ; the head, and part 
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- of the neck, is covered with a black and naked 
fkin. 
In Oronoque there are eultieues of reptiles, 
~ fuch as fnakes, toads, and lizards; and there are 
too a number of birds of prey, which deftroy thefe 
_ reptiles, and prevent their increafing too fatt. 
The Jabiru is one of the es of thefe kinds 
of birds. 
It is “found in all the Savannas of (Cayenne, — 
Guiana, and other parts of South America. It 
- builds in trees, lays two eggs, and brings up the 
- young in the neft, until they can fly down to the . 
ground. 
GENUS 
