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Genus 64. FINAMOUD. 
- This Genus is not mentioned by Linneus. 
‘The bill is long and blunt at the end, the noflrils are 
placed in the middle, and the gape 18 wide. 7 
The fides of the ead and oe are hot well furnitid : 
‘with feathers. 
The tail is very fhort, he hid meh the upper coverts. 
The toe behind is fhort and ufelefs in walking, and the 
claws are hollowed beneath. 
‘The female i is larger than the male: 
: oF Hs Finamous pafs the night pasar upon — 
the day; but they only reft upon the lower 
branches, and perhaps it is neceflity, and not in- 
| clination, that makes ° them avoid roofting ile 
the ground. i 
In Americas. where only the ae are 
found, Partridges, and even many. web-footed 
birds, which with us. confine themfelves to the 
a ground, roof there i in trees ; probably on account 
of the beatts of prey, the ferpents, or the innu-— 
: : “merable {warms of ants which infett that country, 
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and would deftroy both them and their young. 




a The Finamou’s flefh is efieemed a delicacy, 
_ though fome parts are thought to talte bitter, om 
"account of the fruits on which they feed. — 
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trees, and fometimes fit upon them part of - 
