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the nestling Coot — papillae which appear to differ in no 

 way structurally from those on the face of the Pheasant ? 

 And since, by the way, the nestlings of the Coot and 

 Waterhen are in all else so similar and live in similar 

 environments, it is curious to remark how widely they 

 differ in this matter of ornamentation. Again, it is 

 curious that while in the adult Coot the ornamentation of 

 the head is white, in the nestling it is red — the colour of 

 the ornamentation of the adult Waterhen. 



{To be continued.) 



