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land birds; that of the shag among water birds. It 
may suffice to instance the owl amongst the land, 
the eider duck amongst water birds, as thickly clad, 
having in this respect analogy with the sheep and 
the lama. The camel is partially bare, with nu- 
merous callosities; the baboon has bare portions ; 
the deer tribes are thinly coated; the hog yet more 
scantily; the elephant‘, hippopotamus, and manati 
are almost bare*k. The neck of some vultures, of 
the jabiru and of the ibis, are bare; the neck and 
leg of the ostrich are nearly featherless. The grakle, 
the pintado, the turkey, are bare-headed; the pen- 
guin is bare-winged, the cassowary nearly so. The 
palamedea or anhima has a horn upon the head and 
spurs on the wings; the wings of the ostrich are 
terminated by a claw, and another is on the spu- 
rious wing; those of the parra are armed with spurs. 
The quills of the cassowary are plumeless, almost 
like those of the porcupine. Many birds have leg 
armour: the galline have for the greater part spurs 
which they employ in combat; in some these are 
doubled, and occasionally trebled on each leg. The 
horn of the anhima has been mentioned. To this 
notice may be added a singular horn upon the head 
of the ampelis carunculata!. The whole tribe of 
buceros are crested with a vast expansion of horny 
' Bishop Heber mentions a hairy variety of elephant among 
the Himalaya mountains. 
* A variety of dog from Egypt, commonly called the Barbary 
dog, is quite bare; chien Ture, of Buffon. 
' Procnias, of Illiger, Araponga, 
