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of the head, upper throat, nape, and upper breast, and the bristles on the cheek-stripes of a blackish 

 liue ; the centre of the throat is yellow, the rest of the neck and cheeks are light lead-grey, and the 



AN OSTRICH HUNT. 



back, sides of the breast, and wings brownish grey ; the other portions of the under side are dirty 

 white. The eyes are pearl-grey, the bare parts of the face flesh-colour ; the beak is greyish brown, 

 and the foot grey. The female is distinguishable by the paler tints of her neck and breast. An old 

 female measured by the Piince von AVied was fifty-two inches and two-thirds in length, and seven 

 feet across the span of the wings. 



