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and of the outer secondary coverts, the margins of the inner, 

 and the shafts of the qnills white. The tail-feathers grey, 

 margined with white, the four middle blackish-grey; the 

 lateral upper tail-coverts broadly barred with white and 

 blackish-grey. The throat and lower part of the cheeks 

 white ; of which colour also is part of the upper eyelid ; the 

 lower part of the neck in front and the sides of the body 

 dark grey ; the rest of the lower parts white ; the marginal 

 wing-coverts dusky grey, with broad white margins. 



Length to end of tail 7 inches ; extent of wings 14; bill 

 along the ridge -^4, along the edge of lower mandible 1 ; 

 wing from flexure 4^- ; tail 2^ ; tarsus ^4 ; first toe -fj, its 

 claw a half-twelfth ; second toe -j^, its claw -jV ; third toe ^-, 

 its claw -fj ; fourth toe ^, its claw 1 1 ? . 



Female in Summer. — The female resembles the male, 

 but has the dark parts more grey, the red lighter and less 

 extended, the fore -neck with more grey intermixed with thc- 

 red, the grey on the sides of greater extent. The digestive 

 organs of an individual which I examined for Mr. Audubon 

 were as follows : — The palate straight, with two longitudinal 

 ridges, and three anterior series of papillae. The tongue ten- 

 and-a-half-twelfths long, emarginate and papillate at the 

 base, presently contracted, extremely slender, channelled 

 above, tapering to a point. The oesophagus three inches and 

 a half long, two-twelfths in width ; the proventriculus four- 

 twelfths in breadth. The stomach roundish or broadly ellip- 

 tical, oblique, eight-twelfths long, seven-twelfths in breadth, 

 with the lateral muscles large and distinct, the lower promi- 

 nent and thick; the epithelium of moderate thickness, dense, 

 with numerous longitudinal ruga?. The intestine eleven 

 inches and a quarter in length, three-twelfths in breadth, 

 diminishing to a twelfth and a half; the cceca ten-twelfths 

 long, one-twelfth in width, but at the base only a quarter of 

 a twelfth ; the rectum an inch and a quarter long, the cloaca 

 five-twelfths in width. The digestive organs are thus ex- 

 actly similar to those of the Tringpe and Totani. 



Length to end of tail 7f inches ; extent of wings 14£ ; 

 bill along the ridge \^ ; wing from flexure 4^- ; tail 2^ ; 



