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surface of the wings of a white colour, inter- 

 mingled with light brown, (forming a white 

 streak, extending the whole length on the under 

 surface,) except the pen-feathers which are the 

 same colour above as beneath ; tail, dark lead 

 colour, of a lighter tint on the under surface ; 

 irides, light brown ; a black mark on the upper 

 and inner part around the eye, lightly shaded 

 off towards the base of the bill ; eyelids black ; 

 bill yellow, with the tips of the mandibles, espe- 

 cially the upper one, of a reddish colour, shaded 

 with black ; a black narrow membrane extends 

 around the base of the bill, forming a distin- 

 guishing character in this species ; feet bluish, 

 with the web of a bluish brown colour. 



The dissection of this specimen was as fol- 

 lows : — The pleura and peritoneum (similar to 

 all the other specimens examined) were found 

 inflated ; muscles attached to the air-cells ; liver 

 large ; right lobe in length three inches and two 

 eighths, left two inches and three-eighths, soft, 

 and easily torn ; gall bladder in length three 

 inches, and attached the whole of its length to 

 the stomach, and part of the duodenum, and was 

 filled with bile of a bright grass-green colour ; 

 length of the first stomach three inches and 

 a half, longitudinal folds of the inner coat 



