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TELECANIDE, 



the eastward, and is found at tlie Caspian Sea and in India, 

 where the Green species is not seen, but has been brought 

 from South Africa by Dr. Andrew Smith. 



In the adult bird the bill is dusky black, the base of the 

 under mandible and the naked skin about the gape yellowish- 

 green ; the irides green ; the head crested in the spring ; the 

 crown, neck, breast, and all the under surface of the body a 

 uniform rich dark green ; back, and wing-coverts dark green, 

 each feather with a narrow, but darker margin ; wing and 

 tail-feathers black ; legs, toes, and their membranes black. 

 The whole length of the male twenty-seven inches ; of the 

 wing from the wrist ten inches and three-quarters. 



Young birds have the upper plumage brown, tinted with 

 green ; the under surface brownish-ash, mingled with white. 



