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The whole length from the point of the heak to the end of 

 the tail is five feet. From the carpal joint of the wing to the 

 end of the longest primary quill-feather, twenty-five inches 

 and a half ; weight twenty-four pounds. 



The young birds produced at the Gardens of the Zoo- 

 logical Society, when about ten weeks old, in the middle 

 of August, had the beak of a dull flesh-colour, the tip and 

 lateral margins black ; the head, neck, and all the upper 

 surface of the body pale ash-brown ; the under surface 

 before the legs of a paler brown ; the portion behind the 

 legs dull white ; the legs, like the beak, of a dingy flesh- 

 colour. By the middle of October they had the beak black 

 at the end ; a reddish-orange band across the nostrils, the 

 base and lore pale greenish-white ; the general colour pale 

 greyish-brown ; a few of the smaller wing-coverts white, 

 mixed with others of a pale bufly-brown ; the legs black. 

 These young Whoopers, bred in 1839, had lost almost all 

 their brown feathers at the autumn moult of 1840, and 

 before their second winter was over they were entirely white ; 

 the base of the beak lemon-yellow. 



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