84 IVORY GTJLL. 



the width of three feet three inches and a half when extended, 

 greater and lesser wing coverts, primaries, secondaries, tertiaries, 

 greater and lesser under wing coverts, tail, and tail coverts, 

 pure white. The legs, which are feathered nearly to the knee 

 joint, and the toes, black, the latter very rough beneath; the 

 webs are also black, very rough beneath, and deeply scalloped. 



In the young the bill is olive yellow; iris, dusky; a greyish 

 black bar, more or less complete according to age, extends 

 from the bill to the eye. The head, crown, neck on the back, 

 and nape, have more or less greyish brown specks and spots; 

 chin and throat, white; back and greater and lesser wing 

 coverts, white, studded with well-defined dusky brown spots'. 

 The primaries are tipped with dusky brown, the first feather 

 retaining the mark the longest. The tail has a uniform dusky 

 brown line across the end; upper tail coverts, white, with 

 dusky brown spots at the tips of the feathers; the legs, which 

 are short, and the toes, dull blackish; webs, dull blackish. 



The portrait of this bird is from a drawing by J. Gatcombe, 

 Esq., of Wyndham Place, Plymouth. 



