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are peculiar, and with such as connect it with birds 

 of the gallinaceous kind, it has others which seem 

 to belong to the Ostrich and the Cassowary. The 

 bill is strong, and rather convex; the eyes red; on 

 each side of the root of the lower mandible there 

 is a tuft of feathers about nine inches long; the 

 head and neck are ash-coloured. In the one de- 

 scribed by Edwards, there were on each side of the 

 neck two naked spots, of a violet colour, but which 

 appeared to be covered with feathers when the 

 neck Avas much extended. The back is barred 

 transversely with black and bright rusty on a pale 

 reddish ground ; the quills are black ; belly white ; 

 the tail consists of twenty feathers; the middle 

 ones are rufous, barred with black; those on each 

 side are white, with a bar or two of black near the 

 ends; the legs are long, naked above the knees, 

 and dusky; it has no hind toe: the nails are short, 

 strong, and convex both above and below; the 

 bottom of the foot is furnished with a callous pro- 

 minence, which serves instead of a heel. The 

 female is not much more than half the size of the 

 male; the top of her head is deep orange, the rest 

 of the head brown; her colours are not so bright 

 as those of the male, and she has no tuft on each 

 side of the head. There is likewise another very 

 essential difference between the male and the 

 female: the former is furnished with a sack or 

 pouch, situated in the fore part of the neck, and 

 capable of containing about two quarts; the en- 

 trance to it is immediately under the tongue.* 

 This singular reservoir was first discovered by Dr. 



* Harrington's Misc. p. 553. 



