AUDUBON JOURNAL 



Where the Plumage is Larger yet Pointed ash & Ru- 

 fous — the Tail Rounded Composed of 1 8 feathers quills 

 Black shaded Silvery Ash — the Wings Extended 

 Measured 7| feet — the second Joint 9 Inches Closing 

 on the Body reaching to the begainging of the Neck — 

 and When closed the Tips reach the end of the Tail — 

 the first 9 Primary quills White to their points below 

 and about J above; the feathering [dark] brownish 

 black cast secondaries Much the same — Tertials 

 Broad falling over the back part of the body to the 

 root of the Tail; feathers of the Shoulders of a Light 

 Ash some edged With brown, others With Black, quills 

 very slender and Black — Whole under part White and 

 in some Specimen Silvery — Legs Strong and Muscular 

 far behind — 4 Toes Webbed in Connection — the 

 Whole of a Bluish greenish Yellow — Claws blunt, 

 Much Hooked the Longest Pectinated Inwardly — 

 the Bird emitting a Strong disagreable fishy Smell 

 Weighed GJ^^ femorals Much as the Shoulders — on 

 dissection it was a Male — the Stomack Very Long 

 and slender, fleshy — Containing only about 50 slender 

 Blue Worm all alive about 2§ Inches Long — the Gut 

 Measured 10 feet about the size of a Moderate Swans 

 quill — the Bird Was Killed on Lake Barataria by Mr. 

 Hunter Gilbert — the rump and the root of the Tail 

 Was Covered With a Thin Coating of Oily Yellow fat 

 extremely rancid, and Much air Was Contained be- 

 tween the Whole of the Skin and flesh of the body; 



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