66. THE NATURAL HISTORY é 
| “CARUNCULATED CHATTERER, 
‘Itis about twelve inches in enoth, the plumage 
a pure white, the bill black, an inch and half in. 
length ; at the bafe is a flefhy fubftance, like that 
of the tur. key, except that it is flaccid, and pen-_ 
dulous, when the bird is in a ftate of repofe, but: 
when it is agitated, this flefhy fubftance wells, 
lengthens to the extent of two inches, and becomes. 
erect in confequence of the air which is forced 
into it through the opening of the palate. The 
cry of the Carunculated Chatterer is very loud, 
and feems compofed merely of two {yllables, ang, 
Mt pronounced ina drawling manner. It inhabits 
| Brazil and Cayenne. 
Gaxy $. 71, he Og My Te iBhs. 
The beak is convex above and below, frong, and very 
thick at the bafe. 
The lower mandible inflected, with-a Ail marein, 
The tongue, as if cut off at the end. 
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The. two. mandibles crofs each other different 
ways, at the point ; but it is very finguwlar, that 
in fome the lower mandible crofles to the left, and’ 
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