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throat, the skin is bare of feathers, warty, and whitish gray in colour. 
Bill, legs, toes, and claws black ; irides brown. The female is slightly 
less in size than the male; and her plumage is less brilliant. Young birds 
resemble the adult ; but their plumage has little gloss, and the base of the 
beak is feathered, probably until the spring moult, asin the Carrion-Crow, 
from which they may always be distinguished by their more slender beak 
and the different gloss of the plumage. 
