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difference in the length of the bill, they are referable to one and the same species— or, at any 

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In his description of Gallinago aucTclandica, Mr. Gray gives the following measurements : 

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in four of them the bill measures 2-25, in two others it barely exceeds 2 inches, and in the 

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