604 ANSEtt BRACHYRHYNCHUS. 



The feathers of the head are very small and oblong ; of 

 the upper part of the neck linear-oblong, rather acute, imbri- 

 cated, and arranged in lines so as to present deep intervening 

 grooves ; of the fore part of the back, scapulars, and wings, 

 very close, large, broad, and abrupt ; the scapulars very large ; 

 the feathers of the hind part of the back smaller, natter, 

 oblong, and rounded ; those of the lower part of the neck and 

 fore part of the breast large and broadly rounded, of the sides 

 still larger and more abrupt, of the rest of the lower parts 

 gradually smaller and oblong. The wings are broad and 

 rather long, extending about half an inch beyond the end of 

 the tail ; the quills twenty-seven ; the numerals eight, narrow, 

 and rounded ; the second primary is longest, the first half an 

 inch shorter ; the first and second cut out on the inner web, 

 the second and third on the outer; the secondaries broadly 

 rounded, the inner elongated. The tail is very short, direct, 

 rounded, of sixteen broad, rounded feathers, of which the 

 lateral are an inch shorter than the medial. 



The ridge, nasal spaces, and a portion of the sides at the 

 base of the upper mandible are black, that colour terminating 

 anteriorly with three rounded points ; more than half of the 

 lower mandible, and the unguis of both, also black ; the 

 space not thus coloured is bright carmine. The iris is brown. 

 The feet are pale lake, or purplish pink ; the claws black, 

 bluish-grey at the base, the outer with a white ridge. The 

 head and neck are brown, the latter of a lighter tint, gradu- 

 ally becoming paler, at its lower part above changing to red- 

 dish-brown ; the breast greyish-white, or faintly barred with 

 pale grey and greyish-white, with a tinge of brown anteriorly; 

 the large feathers of the sides ash-grey, with two terminal 

 narrow bars, the inner light brown, the outer grey ; the 

 inner margins of the upper white ; the feathers of the tibia? 

 light ash-grey. The abdomen, sides of the rump, and lower 

 tail-coverts pure white. The axillars and lower wing-coverts 

 ash-grey. All the upper parts of the body are ash-grey, as 

 are the wing-coverts, which are of a much lighter tint, while 

 the hind part of the back is darker. The feathers of the back 

 and the scapulars have two narrow terminal bars, the inner 

 brown, the outer white. The secondary coverts are rather 



