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ner secondaries like the back ; the primaries slightly tipped with white, 
the secondaries, excepting the inner, more distinctly so, the white 
forming on them a conspicuous band. Four middle tail-feathers like 
the back, with a band of black at the end, the tip white ; the next pair 
on each side similar, with the white tip larger; the next barred with 
dusky on the outer web ; the lateral feather with the outer web white 
similarly barred. 
Length to end of tail 8 inches, to end of wings 73, to end of claws 
$1; extent of wings 13%; wing from flexure 47; tail 2; bill along the 
ridge 1; tarsus 1% ; hind toe and claw #5 ; middle toe and claw 1,2. 
Female. Plate CCCX. Fig. 2. 
There is hardly any difference between the sexes. 
The young in winter have the bill black at the end, dusky olive 
above, yellow beneath; the feet yellowish flesh-colour. The lower 
parts are brownish-white, without spots; the upper of the same brown- 
ish-olive as in the adult, but the head and hind neck destitute of streaks, 
and the rest with narrower and more numerous dusky bars. 
The tongue is 10 twelfths long, slender, tapering to a point, grooved 
above, sagittate and papillate at the base. The roof of the mouth with a 
single row of papillz, posteriorly divided into two series. Cisophagus 3 
inches and 8 twelfths long, its diameter 2 twelfths, and nearly uniform. 
Proventriculus 3 inch long, 33 twelfths in diameter. Stomach elliptical, 
83 twelfths long, 63 twelfths in breadth; its lateral muscles strong, 
the tendinous spaces oblong; the cuticular lining with large longitudi- 
nal ruge, and of adeepred colour. The contents of the stomach in this 
individual were remains of marine insects, and quartz sand. Intestine 
10 inches long, its diameter varying from 1} twelfth to 1 twelfth: it 
enlarges near the rectum to 2 twelfths. Rectum 1 inch and 1 twelfth; 
coeca 1 inch and 1 twelfth, their diameter 4 of a twelfth. 
The trachea is 2 inches and 8 twelfths long, its diameter from 2 
twelfths to 1 twelfth ; its rings 105, feeble and unossified. The late- 
ral muscles extremely feeble ; sterno-tracheals moderate ; a single pair 
of inferior laryngeal muscles. 
