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streaked with pale hair -brown. Throat pure white. 

 The belly and abdomen white, with a tinge of yellow- 

 ish-grey. The flanks, and some of the under tail-coverts 

 streaked with hair-brown. Upper part of the back and 

 scapulars a fine pearl-grey, margined paler; with the 

 shafts and part immediately contiguous greyish-black. 

 Wing coverts white, with centres of hair-brown. The 

 quills are as described in the summer plumage. The 

 tail is barred with hair-brown and greyish-white. 

 The young, previous to the first change, have the crown Young, 

 of the head streaked with dark hair-brown; the eye- 

 streak and cheeks white, with small pale streaks of 

 wood-brown. The throat white. The neck and breast 

 grey, tinged with wood- brown, and faintly streaked with 

 a darker shade of brown ; under parts white, tinged 

 with yellowish-grey. Upper part of the back and the 

 scapulars hair-brown, deeply margined and spotted with 

 pale sienna or ochreous yellow. Lower part of the back, 

 and upper tail-coverts white, with a few spots of pale 

 hair-brown. Tail barred with hair-brown and white. 

 Legs grey. Bill, in many specimens, not exceeding two 

 inches and a-half in length ; brown, with a flesh-coloured 

 base. 



GENUS MACRORAMPHUS, LEACH. LONGBEAK. 



GENERIC CHARACTERS. 



Bill very long, nearly straight, rather tumid and wrinkled 

 at the base ; the tip much dilated, and rugose after death ; 

 both mandibles furrowed to within a short space of the point. 

 Nostrils lateral, placed near the base, linear and pervious. 



Wings long ; the first quill scarcely exceeding the second, 

 and the longest in the wing. Legs long, slender ; with the 

 lower parts of the tibiae naked. Feet four- toed ; three- before 

 and one behind. The outer toe connected with the inter- 



