beginning at the bafe of the bill, and reaching to the a t t f e r f
the crown ; this is three inches high, and one inch broad the
bafe, but gradually grows thinner, fo as the upper part is not
more than a quarter of an inch thick-, this is yellowilh at the
back, but blackifh on the fore part: the fide, of the head are
naked, being, as well as the neck, covered only J ‘th a wrinWed
reddifh fkin, thinly befet with hairs, and tinged with a cad
both blue and purple : on the lower part on each Me forwards
are placed two flefhy membranes, one inch and a ha Hong and,
three quarters broad, part red part blue, and take nfe about the
middle of the neck, where they are very (lender : on the bread is
a callous bare part, on which the bird reds, its body when on the
ground: the body in general is covered with brown.Ih black Ml feathers, two of which arife from one fliaft for the
mod part I on the rump thefe feathers are fourteen inches: long
at l'eaft, and hang downwards, in place of a tail, for the bird is
deftitute of one: the wing, or what is in the p la c e o f it is not
furnilhed with feathers, having only five bare drafts like the
quills of a Porcupine,, the longed ten or eleveninchesand of a
dufky colour; at the end of the lad joint a kind of claw . the
legs have all the three toes placed forwards, and each furmlhe
with a claw, which is almod draight, and pointed,, the inner one
the longed : the colour of the legs and toes grey.fir brown :.
C lTMs fpecies inhabits the etflern parts of ƒ > , »wards the
Couth, being found in the Molucca iflands, thofe of Banda, Java,.
Sumatra,, and parts cqrrefponding,, but no. where in p enty, nor
ever met with beyond the limits of the torrid zone It cannot
fly, but runs very fall. The egg is fmaller and longer than
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