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M A N I L L A IS L A N D S.
a r e d i f t in g u i ih e d b y t h e v a i l l e n g t h o f t h e i r t a i l s ; t h a t o f t h e
f i r i i f t r a i t , o f t h e o t h e r in c u r v a t e d .
T he Hornbill, tab. 83. Latham, i. 353; . the bill, as ufual,
great and incurvated, and each mandible marked acrofs with fe-
veral prominent moldings o f a brown color, and the intermediate
furrows pale yellow; the acceflory bill is ftrait,. and ends
abrupt, about half the length of the real.
T he Philippine Hornbill, Latham, i. 345. PI. Enl. 873, is
black above, white beneath; the bill is vait, with the acceflorial
hill convex at the top and in front, one third black, the hind
part white; this bird is as large as a great fowl, and the beak
nine inches long.
T he Manilla Hornbill, Latham, i. 354. PJ. Enl. 891, has a
limple bill; the head, neck, breaft, and belly are white; beneath
the cheek is a black fpot; back and wings black.
T he above, and two fpecies hereafter to be mentioned, are
natives of thefe iflands and o f the Moluccas; their food is fruit;
they inhabit the .higheft trees, and are the grotefque birds of
the Indian archipelagos, -
- R e s p e c t i n g the trees., ihrubs, or plants of the Manillas, I
muft content myfelf with giving the few engraven by M, Sonnerat,
or defcribed by that moft induftrious naturalift.
T he Sapotte Negro, tab. 14, a fpecies o f Achras, is a fmall
tree, with a round green fruit, containing four kernels, in ihape
o f an almond, much admired by the Indians.
T h e Berkias, t a b . 48, is a ih r u b b e a r in g a f lo w e r o f a n e l e g
a n t f o rm . Sonnerat p u t s i t u n d e r t h e g e n u s o f t h e Pandequaqua,
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quaqua, a. barbarous name. The Chiococca Racemofa, Linn. Suppl.
p. 145, a lefier fpecies, is a milky plant, fee tab. 19, the juice of
which is ufed by the Indians for healing their wounds. The
larger bears an oval fruit full of feed, tab. 43.
Le Rocou, or Atchiote, is a fhrub with a fmall pointed fruit
covered with briftles, containing numbers o f feeds, which give a
beautiful red dye.
T h e Ignatia amara, Linn. Suppl. p. 149, which produces the
beans o f St. Ignatius, o f fuperftitious ufe, grows in thefe
iflands.
T h e Cocoa tree, tab. 61. 62. Theobroma cacao. I imagine that C o c o a T r e e .
Linnaus muft have been a great admirer of chocolate, as he
names the tree which produces it, Theobroma, or the food o f the
Gods. This tree is a native of the Antilles, and hotter parts of
South America, and has been, introduced into thefe iflands by the
Spaniards, from the great fondnefs that nation has for its produce
; otherwife they would not have given themfelves any
trouble about a lefs favored tree.
T h e celebrated bre'adfruit *, the Soccus Lanofus,granofus, and b r e a d f r u i t .
fylvejlris o f Rumphius, v. p. n o . 12. 14. tab. 32.33. 34. Artocar-
pus Incifa, G. Forjler, Flerul.. inf. aujlr. N° 332. Plant. Efc. N° r.
J . R. Forjleris Genera, 51. tab. 51. 51. a. and Mr. John Ellis, in his
monograph on this tree, is frequent in thefe iflands. It begins to
appear on the eaftern parts o f Sumatra, where it is named by the
Malayes, Soccum Capas, again in Prince’s ifland, about Bantam,
and in Malega, and finally in all the iflands to the eaft, and from
thence to Otabeite, and many others in the South Sea.
Hampier, i. 296, firft difcovered it in Guam, one of the La-
* Outlines of the Globe, i. p. 237. E .
drone.