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twenty-six inches ; the wing twelve inches and one-quarter : 

 the male in the whole length twenty-one inches, the wing 

 eleven inches and a half. A female weighs about 28 oz. 



Several albinos of this species are on record ; there is one 

 in the Museum of Science and Art, Dublin ; one is in a private 

 collection in Armagh ; and Mr. J. Marshall of Taunton has 

 a creamy white example captured on the 2nd of August last 

 (Zool. 1883, p. 377). Melanisms are rarer : Sir K. Payne- 

 Gallwey states that he has one killed in Galway Bay in 

 1877, and sold as a Glossy Ibis. 



The vignette represents the young of the Curlew, for the 

 opportunity of figuring which the Author was indebted to 

 the late Mr. T. C. Heysham, of Carlisle. The down is buff- 

 coloured, with dark brown markings. 



