. Sketches of the natural history of Ceylon; with narratives and anecdotes illustrative of the habits and instincts of the mammalia, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, &c. including a monograph of the elephant ... Zoology; Elephants. Chap. VIH.] THE HOENBILL. 243 extraordinary bird may serve to explain the statement of the MiQorite friar Odoric, of Portenau in Friuli, who travelled in Ceylon in the fourteenth century, and «fl^-'. brought suspicion on the veracity of his narrative by asserting that he had there seen " birds with two ; * The Singhalese have a belief that the h
. Sketches of the natural history of Ceylon; with narratives and anecdotes illustrative of the habits and instincts of the mammalia, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, &c. including a monograph of the elephant ... Zoology; Elephants. Chap. VIH.] THE HOENBILL. 243 extraordinary bird may serve to explain the statement of the MiQorite friar Odoric, of Portenau in Friuli, who travelled in Ceylon in the fourteenth century, and «fl^-'. brought suspicion on the veracity of his narrative by asserting that he had there seen " birds with two ; * The Singhalese have a belief that the hornbill never resorts to the water to drink; but that it subsists exclu- sively by what it catches in its prodigious bill while sure of his 'beak. The hornbill flesh as a sovereign specific for abounds in Cuttack, and bears there rheiunatic affections.—Asiat. See. the name of " Kuehila-Kai," or ch. xv. p. 184. Kuohila-eater, from its partiality ' Itinerariiis Feateis Odoeict, for the fruit of the Strychnus nux- de Foro JuUi de Portu-vahonis, vomica. The natives regard its &c.—Hailluyt, vol. ii. p. 39. B 2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tennent, James Emerson, Sir, 1804-1869. London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
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