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1-16 to 128 ; height of bill at margin of cere, 1:2 to 1:3. Wings 
when closed, reach to within from 1 to 4 inches of end of tail. 
Lower tail coverts generally reach to within 4 or 5 inches of 
end of tail, Weight from 12 Ibs to nearly 20 tbs; 14 Ibs being 
the average for males, and the females being considerably heavier. 
The tarsus is covered in front, and on the sides, for more than 
half its length, with a dense, almost silky fur, which in one place 
almost meets behind. ‘he bare portion of the tarsus and the 
feet* are, in some, a clear, slightly creamy white, on others, 
a pearl white, with here and there a barely perceptible pink 
tinge. Scutellation reticulate, scales slightly prominent; with 
commonly 5 rather large transverse scutee at the end of the 
middle toe, and 4 at the ends of the others; outer and centre 
toes connected by a membrane as far as the 2nd joints. Traces 
of a membraneous connection between inner and mid toe. Termi- 
nal pads of hinder and inner toes very large. Inner toe claw 
as large and at times even slightly larger than the hind toe 
claw, outer toe and claw, especially the latter, very feeble. 
Irides brown, lower eyelid creamy white, (often with a faint 
delicate lilac or even purplish shade) pinkish at margin, and 
with a row of thick short eyelash feathers ; upper lid, and bare 
eye-shelf pinkish, at times with a lilac shade. Cere, gape and base 
-of lower mandible a pale mauve, at times tinged in places with 
pink. Bill horny, blackish brown, darker on upper mandible and 
tip of lower ditto, palest at sides of base of upper mandible, and 
of lower ditto. Tongue thick and fleshy, round ended, slightly 
emarginate at the tip, hastate as a whole, and fringed at the 
back, not merely grooved down the centre, but the sides curving 
regularly up from the middle, so as to give a semicircular sec-— 
tion. The lores, cheeks, forehead, crown, occiput, chin and 
throat, and a patch on the lower mandible, covered with dark 
brown fur-like feathers, growing lighter towards the occiput. 
This fur is sparse and rather harsh on the cheeks, chin and 
throat, but very dense and soft on the upper portions of the 
head. The naked skin at the back and sides of neck, and the 
bare patch over the articulation of the jaws, (generally continued 
as a ring upwards, behind and over the dark fur border of the 
ear aperture, to within one half an inch or so of the posterior 
angle of the eye,) creamy, or in some, delicate bluish white, 
occasionally with a shade of pink. 
The wholebody and wings are a rich, very dark, chocolate brown, 
(the under surface being darker than the upper,) the quills and tail 
* What does Dr. Bree mean by saying “ Feet covered with feathers above ?” 
The whole of the feet and the lower portion of the tarsus, are as perfectly nude 
as feet and legs can be. 
