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Bill : Yellowish horn color. 

 Legs and feet : Lead color, with a bluish tone. 

 Iris : Deep hazel brown. 



Young or immature birds differ from adults in being of a general grey 

 tone, not pure white, and in having the neck and head wholly feathered, 



FIG. 191. 



Tantalus loculator. Showing the feathering on the head and neck of an immature bird. 

 natural site. 



Fie. 192. 



Tantalus loculator. Showing the unfeathered forehead of an immature bird. % natural size. 



as far as the forehead, with a scant, coarse, downy, wool-like, grey plumage. 

 The feathers are darkest, almost dusky, on the occiput. The rest of the 

 coloring is much as in adults, but the white not so pure. These birds 

 are probably those of the first year, as a second phase is much like this, 

 but the grey only shows on the neck feathers, the rest of the feathering 



