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largely tipped with white, the middle coverts narrowly, the 

 smaller coverts and primary coverts without white. All the 

 quills have white shafts, and are greyish-black, but the 

 primaries are grey to some extent from the base, and the inner 

 secondaries tinged with brown, and narrowly margined exter- 

 nally with white. The sides of the rump and the upper tail- 

 coverts are white ; the tail feathers ash-grey, largely tipped 

 with white, that colour gradually enlarging from the middle 

 of the tail outwards. 



The oesophagus is seventeen inches long, eleven-twelfths 

 in width until it reaches the furcula, when it contracts consi- 

 derably, but enlarges on entering the thorax, and from the 

 proventricular belt to the stomach has a width of an inch and 

 three-fourths. The proventriculus itself is an inch and a half 

 in external diameter, an inch and three-fourths in length. 

 The stomach is an extremely muscular gizzard, situated 

 obliquely, transversely oval, its breadth being three inches 

 and three-fourths, its length two inches ; the left muscle 

 an inch and ten-twelfths thick, the other an inch and a 

 half; the epithelium forming two very thick lemon-yellow 

 smoothish, somewhat concave plates, about an inch in dia- 

 meter. The intestine is five feet nine inches long, from nine- 

 twelfths to four-twelfths in breadth, arranged in thirteen folds; 

 the duodenum six inches to the first curve. The coeca are 

 nine inches and a half in length, their greatest width half an 

 inch. One of the lobes of the liver is three inches and three- 

 fourths in length, the others two inches and three-fourths. 



Length to end of tail 28 inches ; extent of wings 62 ; 

 wing from flexure 17^ ; tail 5f ; bill along the ridge 1{-^ : 

 along the edge of lower mandible l^f ; its height at the base 

 1-Jj ; its breadth behind the unguis -^ ; tarsus 2|- ; hind toe 

 -fe, its claws T 3 -j; second toe 1-L-L, its claw -^ ; third toe 2 T 7 -2, 

 its claw -^j ; fourth toe 2^, its claw -fe. 



Another adult male, shot in February, 1835, had the bill 

 orange, tinged with carmine anterior to the nostrils and along 

 the edges to near the base of the upper mandible, the base 

 and unguis of both mandibles black. The eyes hazel. The 

 feet orange-red, tinged with carmine. The head and upper- 

 neck dark greyish-brown, the lower part pale yellowish- 



