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round the neck passes a collar of black, which spreads over the 

 back, rump, and tail coverts; below this colour the upper part 

 of the breast is white, extending itself over the whole scapulars, 

 wing coverts, and secondaries; the primaries, lower part of the 

 breast, whole belly, and vent are black; tail pointed, and of a 

 blackish hoary colour; the fore part of the legs and ridges of 

 the toes pale whitish ash; hind part the same bespattered 

 with blackish, webs black; the edges of both mandibles are 

 largely pectinated. In young birds, the whole of the white 

 plumage is generally strongly tinged with a yellowish cream 

 colour; in old males these parts are pure white, with the excep- 

 tion sometimes of the bristly pointed plumage of the cheeks, 

 which retains its cream tint the longest, and, with the skinny 

 part of the bill, form two strong peculiarities of this species. 



The female measures nineteen. inches in length, and twenty- 

 seven in extent; bill exactly as in the male; sides of the front 

 white; head, chin, and neck ashy gray; upper parts of the back 

 and wings brownish slate; secondaries only, white; tertials hoa- 

 ry; the white secondaries form a spot on the wing, bounded by 

 the black primaries, and four hoary tertials edged with black; 

 whole lower parts a dull ash skirted with brownish white, or 

 clay colour; legs and feet as in the male, the bill in both is 

 marked from the nostrils backwards by a singular heart shaped 

 outline. 



The windpipe of the male measures ten inches in length, and 

 has four enlargements, viz. one immediately below the mouth, 

 and another at the interval of an inch; it then bends largely 

 down to the breast bone, to which it adheres by two strong 

 muscles, and has at that place a third expansion. It then be- 

 comes flattened, and before it separates into the lungs, has a 

 fourth enlargement much greater than any of the former, which 

 is bony, and round, puffing out from the left side. The intes- 

 tines measured six feet; the stomach contained small clams, and 

 some glutinous matter; the liver was remarkably large. 



