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claw -fV; second toe l^V, its claw -^-j third toe '^^, its claw 

 ■^ ; fourth toe 2^, its claw -^. 



Female in Winter. — The female, which is much smaller, 

 has the bill less stout, the feathers of the head less elongated 

 and less glossy, as are the scapulars and the feathers of the 

 sides. The bill is light brown, yellowish on the ridge toward 

 the end, with the upper unguis dusky, the lower yellowish- 

 brown. The tarsi and toes are of a dingy yellowish-brown, 

 the interdigital membranes dusky, the claws brown. The 

 head and upper neck are umber-brown ; the loAver neck all 

 round dull ash-grey, the feathers terminally edged Avith paler. 

 The lower parts are Avhite ; but the sides of the body and 

 rump, with part of the abdomen, are grey ; the axillars and 

 lower wing-coverts brownish-grey. The back and scapulars 

 are deep ash-grey, but on the hind part of the back that 

 colour shades into black. The tail dark brown, tinged with 

 grey. The smaller wing-coverts are deep grey, many of them 

 tipped with pale grey. The primaries, their coverts, four 

 outer secondaries and five inner, with their coverts brownish- 

 black, the seven other secondaries pure w^hite, as are their 

 coverts, unless at the base. 



Length to end of tail 16 inches ; extent of wings 28 ; 

 wing from flexure 8^ ; tail 3^ ; bill along the ridge \-^^ ; 

 tarsus 1 J ; hind toe ■^, its claw y2_ • second toe l-/-j> i^^ 

 claw -^ ; third toe 2^, its claw -^ ; fourth toe 1-^-^, its 

 claw -^. 



The tongue an inch and four-twelfths long. The oeso- 

 phagus nine inches and a half in length, at first nine-twelfths 

 wide, contracting to five-twelfths, then for nearly four inches 

 eight-twelfths, in entering the thorax four-twelfths ; but the 

 proventriculus seven-and-a-half-twelfths in breadth, and an 

 inch and a half in length. The stomach is an inch and a 

 half in length, nearly two inches in breadth ; its articular 

 lining with irregular longitudinal fissures. The intestine is 

 five feet four and a half inches long, its width half an inch, 

 but about the middle less ; the rectum four inches and a half 

 in length, and eight-twelfths in Avidtli ; the coeca three inches 

 and a half in length, at their lower parts two-and-a-half- 



