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fpecimens the red encircles the whole neck with a narrow collar. The upper 

 part of the head is greyifh ; the back, wings, and tail cinereous-brown ; with 

 a caft of green, and varied by a fort of coppery glofs difFufed over the 

 ■whole. The eyes are furrounded by a bare whitifli or afh-coloured fkin. 



The beak is moft extrenaely large, hooked, and of a blackifli lead-colour. 

 The legs are nearly of the fame appearance. The tips of the feathers in 

 this fpecies are of a deeper cafl: than the reft of the feather j giving a fort 

 of ftriated or undulated afpedt to the whole bird» 



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