Levit. xi. 18. Kaath.ONOCROTALUS. Moses puts it among the impure Animals, Levit. xi. 18. The Hebrew reads Kaath, which comes from a Root that signifies to vomit. The Seventy [and the English Version] have translated it by Pelican. This Bird, when it has filled its Stomach with Oysters with their Shells, disgorges them, and takes out the Oysters, when by the Heat of the Stomach the Shells are opened. As for the Onocrotalus; ‘tis a Bird much like a Pelican, but which has a Crop or Purse below its Beak, or at the Beginning of its Throat, which is so large, as that sometimes a little Child has been found in it entire. It is called in Hebrew Cos, which signifies a Cup or Dish. See the Article NYCTICORAX.
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