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"Is there any point on which you differ from Spix in his account of the Chowchowtow, Mr. Mackaw?" "My dear sir, I don't follow him at all. Dr. Spix is a most excellent man, a most accurate traveller, quite a name; but, to be sure, I've only read his work in our own tongue; and I fear from the passage you have just quoted, five feet seven inches high! in Brazil! it must be an imperfect version.
"Do not you? I dare say we shall find an account of it in Spix, however," said Vivian, rising, and taking a volume from the book-case; "ay! here it is; I will read it to you." "'The Chowchowtow is about five feet seven inches in height from the point of the bill to the extremity of the claws.
At last he burst forth with an immense deal of science and a great want of construction, a want which scientific men often experience, always excepting those mealy-mouthed professors who lecture "at the Royal," and get patronised by the blues, the Lavoisiers of May Fair! "Chowchowtow, my Lady! five feet seven inches high! Brazilian bird!
"Oh! we were talking of some South American bird given to the Marchioness by the famous Captain Tropic; you know him, perhaps; Bolivar's brother-in-law, or aide-de-camp, or something of that kind; and which screams so dreadfully at night that the whole family is disturbed. The Chowchowtow it is called; is not it, Mrs. Lorraine?" "The Chowchowtow!" said Mr. Mackaw; "I don't know it by that name."
When I just remind your Ladyship that the height of the tallest bird to be found in Brazil, and in mentioning this fact, I mention nothing hypothetical, the tallest bird does not stand higher than four feet nine. Chowchowtow! Dr. Spix is a name, accurate traveller, don't remember the passage, most singular bird! Chowchowtow! don't know it by that name.
Grey, impossible! the Doctor never screams." "Oh! Mr. Mackaw, Mr. Mackaw!" said Vivian. "Oh! Mr. Mackaw, Mr. Mackaw!" said Mrs. Felix Lorraine. "I tell you he never screams," reiterated the man of science; "I tell you he can't scream; he's muzzled." "Oh, then, it must Have been the Chowchowtow." "Yes, I think it must have been the Chowchowtow."
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