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The term fuscus is but poorly applicable to this 

 bird in adult plumage : the long and pointed 

 feathers, being black with a central stripe of pure 

 white, give a hue rather hoary or silvery than 

 fuscous; and the pale yellow head, and deep 

 chestnut neck, margined with a white edging, 

 adds a considerable degree of beauty to the 

 whole. 



I dissected a female in May ; an operation which 

 though performed in the open air, was almost suffi- 

 cient to take away the breath. I found the stomach 

 a long capacious sac without constriction, with thick 

 muscular walls; there was a round cavity just 

 beyond the pyloric bend; the intestinal canal was 

 nearly uniform in size, slender, but long, with 

 many convolutions; it measured 99 inches; near 

 the middle was a curious conformation, which I 

 have observed in the intestine of the Ardeadce; 

 as though the tube had been abruptly terminated 

 and closed, and another tube let in at the side of 

 the former a little way from the end, which end thus 

 projected like a teat. Two caeca, about 1J inch 

 long when distended. The appearance of the vis- 

 cera corresponded in most particulars to that de- 

 scribed by Prof. Owen (Pr. Zool. Soc. 1835) in 

 P. rufescens. The right lobe of the liver was 

 three or four times greater in volume than the 

 left; the former had its edges rounded; the latter 

 was sub-globose. The gall-bladder small; the gall 

 deep brown-yellow. The spleen was large, oval, 

 about 1} by 1, soft, and greenish-black. Kid- 

 neys about equal, 2 inches by 1 inch. The fat 



