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nearly one-third wider ; the nail curved and black ; the 

 irides yellow ; the head and the neck all round, as well as 

 the upper part of the breast and back, black ; the cheeks 

 and sides of the neck glossed with rich green ; the rest of 

 the back and the scapulars spotted and striped with broadish 

 black lines, on a ground of white, with considerable inter- 

 vals between the lines ; the wing-coverts of much darker 

 grey than the back ; the wing-primaries brownish-black ; the 

 secondaries white, forming the speculum, but tipped with 

 black ; tertials as dark a grey as the smaller wing-coverts ; 



rump and upper tail-coverts black ; tail-feathers brownish- 

 black ; breast, sides below the wing, and the flanks pure 

 white ; the portion of the belly behind the legs marked with 

 greyish lines, on a ground of white ; under tail-coverts 

 black ; legs and toes bluish-black, the intervening mem- 

 branes darker. The whole length is eighteen inches. From 

 the carpal joint to the end of the wing nine inches ; the 

 first and second quill-feathers very nearly equal in length, 

 but the first rather the longer of the two. 



