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Mr. Jofeph Spar/hall of Yarmouth favored mc 

 with the following very accurate defcription : 



The length from the end of the beak to the extre- 

 mity of the middle toe forty inches : breadth of the 

 wings, extended, fifty-two inches : bill, length of 

 the upper mandible feven inches ; of the lower fix 

 three-fourths ditto : breadth of the fpoon, near the 

 point, two inches ; ditto of the nether mandible 

 one inch feven-eighths: breadth of both, in the 

 narrowed parr, near the middle, three-fourths of 

 an inch : a bright orange colored fpot, about the 

 breadth of a fixpence, juft above the point of the 

 upper mandible, which is a little hooked, or bent 

 downward at its extremity. At the angles of the 

 bill, on each cheek, a fpot of a bright orange co- 

 lor : the ikin between the fides of the lower man- 

 dible, and extending about three inches down- 

 ward on the throat or neck, covered with very 

 fine down, almoft imperceptible, which, with the 

 fkin on that part, are of a very bright orange co- 

 lor : irides of the eyes a bright flame color, very 

 lively and vivid : the whole bill (except the above 

 fpot) of a fine mining black : its upper furface 

 elegantly waved with dotted protuberances : a de- 

 prened line extending from the noftrils (which are 

 three-eights of an inch long, and fituate half an 

 inch below the upper part of the bill) is conti- 

 nued round it about one eighth of an inch from 

 its edge : its fubftance has fomething of the appear- 

 ance of whale bone, thin, light, and elaftic. Infide 



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