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seen in the majority of the species, that we shall 

 now adopt it. An interesting account of the man- 

 ners of these hirds, too long to be here repeated, 

 will he found in Northern Zoology, ii. page 134. 



We cannot determine this species from any of 

 the descriptions in Le Yaillant, with which we have 

 carefully compared it. We shall therefore con- 

 sider it as new, although it is by no means uncom- 

 mon. Its chief distinction, as expressed in the 

 specific character, is in the very unusual paleness of 

 the inner webs of the primary quills, which, upon 

 their upper surface, are of the very lightest brown ; 

 they are palest at the base, and gradually become 

 darker towards their tips, while their inner surface, 

 or that next to the body, is so light, that but for a 

 greyish tinge, they would be quite white. The 

 plumage is glossy blue-black, but without any me- 

 tallic reflections ; the depth of the fork of the tail 

 is three quarters of an inch, and the two divisions 

 divaricate considerably ; the third and fourth quills 

 are largest, and the second and seventh are equal. 



Total length, 9^ ; bill, from the gape, 1 ; wings, 

 5 T 3 g ; tail beyond, 2i ; ditto from the base, 4^ ; 

 tarsus, T 6 C . 



