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or whitish, with transverse undulated Hnes. 

 The ten outermost large feathers of the 

 wing are black ; the inner ones black and 

 white, so that the speculum, or spot of the 

 wing, is very large and white, divided by 

 two black transverse lines. Tail short, 

 ash-coloured. Feet red. Legs compressed. 

 Hind toe very small, with a membranous 

 lobe, and curved inwards. Fore toes three, 

 the outermost of four joints, middle one of 

 three, and the innermost of two only. All 

 the toes are connected by a palmate web, 

 and the innermost has, besides, a marginal 

 longitudinal membrane. The windpipe is 

 remarkable, formed not of half rings, as in 

 most birds, but of circular ones. About 

 the middle it is dilated into a sort of bag, 

 and further down into another smaller one*. 



LYCKSELE LAPLAND. 

 The river alono: which we had rowed for 

 the space of almost three miles, and which 

 had hitherto been easily navigable, now 



* On this subject sec Dr. Latham's excellent paper in 

 the fourth vol . of the Linn. Society's Transactions, p. 90. 



