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From the base forward to between the nostrils and the nail, the bill 

 on the unskiuned bird was tiesh-colored (Mr. Storm, I. c. and i)i litt.). 

 The red color in the dried condition has now exactly the same extent, 

 but has changed to a dull yellowish-red in the hinder part and dark 

 crimson in the front part; border, tip, and a spot round the opening of 

 the nostrils, black. Mr. Storm describes the feet in the freshly-killed 

 specimen as grayish, lighter than in the adult, and the iris as light 

 grayish. 



The upper part of the head and neck dull bluish-gray, with the edges 

 of the feathers on the head lighter ; chin and throat dirty-Avhite; fore- 

 head partly with rather strong rusty -yellow tinge; round the eyes a 

 sharply-defined, downy, white ring. Eest of the surface of the body 

 light violet-gray, with the edges of the feathers tawny yellow ; on the 

 back, shouhlers, wing-coverts, sides, and the rather purer light bluish- 

 gray rump, the shafts are blackish, forming very distinct dark streaks; 

 on each shoulder a pure white feather protrudes, with a few gray rays. 

 The underside whitish, with the edges of the feathers rust-colored, 

 especially on the middle of the belly ; crissum shaded with dull grayish. 

 The primaries a trifle darker than the back, the first with a white stripe 

 in the outer web, along the shaft ; tlie primary coverts rather light. Rec- 

 trices gray, lighter along the edge of the inner web; a cluster of the 

 outer tail-coverts on each side pure white. 



The tail consists of 20 rectrices.* 



Mus. University Copenhagen (9 jun. Veiling, Jufland, DenmarJ:, 

 Gth ALarch, 1859.) 



Length of the bill along gape, 82™"' ; to the fore border of the nostrils, 

 36"'"; and to the fore border of the bill, 104""". Breadth at the nos- 

 trils, 28"'"'. Length of toes with claws: Outer toe 114, middle toe 119, 

 inner toe 97, and hind toe 24"'"'. Tarsus 90, wing 475, and tail 138""". 



Lores almost bare, and the light color on those and the bill yellow. 

 This color extends along the edge of the upper mandible not farther 

 than is usual in the adult birds, whilst that on the culmen reaches as 

 far as the fore border of the nostrils; likewise the hinder part of the 

 skin of the nostrils is yellow. On the culmen, straight up from the 

 upper posterior point of the skin of the nostrils, a large horseshoe- 

 shaped black spot, with the opening towards the back. The limits be- 

 tween black and yellow less distinct than in the adult. 



The color of the plumage about the same as that of the young speci- 

 men in the collection at Trondhjem, described above, although not so 

 bluish; the tint on the back, wings, and tail feathers being, on the con- 

 trary, brownish. Also, the shafts are light, except on the remiges and 

 rectrices, the shafts of which are brownish. The forehead and the abdo- 

 men with rusty -yellow tinge. 



* Mr. Dresser, Birds of Enr., part for April, 1880, says: " The young bird is said to 

 have only eighteeu or nineteeu tail-feathers." 



