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upwards. The web on the inner side of 

 the shaft is very narrow. The bill is 

 large, strong, and compressed towards 

 the tip. The culmen is well-curved, 

 hooked, and distinctly notched. Iris is 

 red in the adult and brown in the young. 

 The crest of the young birds just after 

 leaving the nest (in July) is not long 

 enough to curve backwards, the long 

 tail-shafts are not denuded in the middle 

 as in adult birds, and the wings have a 

 green tinge. 



From tip to tip, the Northern bird 

 is about 26 inches in length. This dimen- 

 sion is due to the long tail-shafts which 

 alone sometimes extend up to twenty inch- 

 es. The middle tail-feathers are not more 

 than five or six inches, and the body 

 proper does not exceed a foot. 



In Yol. XIII of the Journal of the 

 Bombay Natural History Society, Finn 

 records a case of albinism in the pre- 

 sent species. In the specimen, the upper 

 and lower wing-coverts except the primary 



