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with green; in the other parts of the plumage she exactly re- 

 sembles the male. In the stomachs of three which I opened, I 

 found large quantities of a species of worm called borers, two 

 or three inches long, of a dirty cream-colour, with a black head; 

 the stomach was an oblong pouch, not muscular like the giz- 

 zards of some others. The tongue was worm-shaped, and for 

 half an inch at the tip as hard as horn, flat, pointed, of the same 

 white colour as the bill, and thickly barbed on each side. 



