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hrown; the scapulars and lower parts white ; the tail-feathers 

 chief xj lohite. Female with the hill deep hluish-grey ; the feet 

 reddish-broivn ; the upper part of the head and nape choco- 

 late-hrown ; the sides of the head and neck, and middle part 

 of the hind-neck, white ; the throat, an oblong piatch on the 

 sides of the neck, and the lower neck, all round, greyish- 

 broion ; the loicer parts ivhite ; the upper deep chocolate- 

 brown ; the tail brownish-grey. Male in summer with the 

 upper part of the head and nape brownish-black ; the sides of 

 the head greyish-white ; the neck all round, and the fore part 

 of the breast, dark chocolate-brown ; the back and wing- 

 coverts brownish-black ; the scapulars margined with reddish- 

 brown. 



Male in Wintek. — This beautiful and lively inhabitant 

 of the northern seas has the body compact, rather elongated, 

 and considerably depressed ; the neck rather short, and of 

 moderate thickness ; the head oblong, compressed, rounded 

 above, and with the forehead convex. 



The bill is much shorter than the head, of about the same 

 height and breadth at the base, gradually depressed and 

 narrowed toward the end, which is rounded ; the upper 

 mandible with the basal sinus bounded by a line ascending 

 obliquely to near the nostril, the upper sinus broadly rounded, 

 the frontal angles obsolete, the dorsal line descending and 

 straight to the unguis, which is large, roundish, convex, and 

 decurved, the ridge broad and flattened to beyond the nostrils, 

 the sides convex, the edges soft, marginate, with the pointed 

 lamellae projecting a little, the marginal line nearly straight, 

 toward the end ascending and rounded, the nasal sinus 

 oblong, sub-basal ; lower mandible with the intercrural space 

 long, narrow, half bare, the crura little convex, the outer 

 laminae very prominent, the unguis large, broadly elliptical, 

 little convex. 



The mouth is of moderate width ; the anterior palate 

 concave, with a papillate median ridge, and on each side 

 about thirty-five short lamellae, of which the outer ends are 

 pointed, and project considerably. The tongue is an inch 

 and five-twelfths long, fleshy, grooved along the middle, 



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