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carmine with the edges and point horn-colour. The iris 

 bright carmine, the edges of the eyelids paler : the bare space 

 from the eye to the bill dusky. The feet are greenish-brown 

 externally and beneath^ greenish-yellow internally and above, 

 dusky toward the edges. The upper parts are greyish-black, 

 the ruff and sides of the neck tinged with brown, the former 

 with several dusky longitudinal streaks. The same parts of 

 the Aving Avhite as in the adult. A band from the nostril to 

 the eye, the cheeks, and lower parts white, but the sides 

 dusky. The stomach large, moderately muscvilar, with the 

 inner coat rugous, contained remains of fishes, numerous ver- 

 tebrae and other bones, with some green confervse, and a 

 quantity of feathers. 



Length to end of tail 21^ inches, to end of wings 19f , to 

 end of claws SGg- ; bill along the ridge 1-|^, from nostril to 

 point 1^, along the edge of lower mandible 2^ ; Aving from 

 flexure 7-^ ; tail l\^ ; tarsus 2h^ ; hind toe -^, its claAV -fj ; 

 second toe ^^2, its claAv ^ ; third toe 2j, its claAv -^ ; fourth 

 toe 2^, its claAv ■^. 



A female, also killed on the Forth, and examined on the 

 9th January, 1841, had the occipital crest considerably deve- 

 loped, the longest feathers being an inch in length, the 

 longest rufl"-feathers an inch and tAvo-tAvelfths. The ujiper 

 mandible dusky grey, passing into pale bluish-grey at the 

 end, the sides to beyond the nostrils faint carmine ; the loAver 

 mandible light carmine, Avith the margins and tips pale 

 bluish-grey. The iris deep carmine ; the margins of the eye- 

 lids paler ; the bare loral space dusky. The feet dusky- 

 brown Avith a tinge of grey, the upper surface of the toes dull 

 greenish-yelloAv, Avitli irregular dusky marks over the joints. 

 The upper part of the head glossy greyish-black ; an oblong- 

 spot before the eye Avhite ; the throat and cheeks Avhite, the 

 latter becoming tinged Avith broAvn behind, and faintly mot- 

 tled Avith dusky ; many of the ruff" feathers black, mixed Avith 

 broAvnish-white toAvard the end, so as to seem streaked ; the 

 hind neck dark grey ; the upper parts of the body blackish- 

 grey ; the Avings dusky-grey, Avith thirteen secondaries Avhite, 

 four partly so, the rest dusky ; the fore edge of the Aving, and 

 all the feathers of the humerus, Avith a fcAv of the loAver sca- 



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