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the outer webs, except the two first ; the shaft 

 of the first quil is white, the others dusky brown, 

 spurious wing and smaller coverts near it dusky; 

 the rest of the coverts and tertials cinereous, 

 like the back ; the rump and upper tail coverts 

 dusky ; the feathers slightly tipped with cinere- 

 ous ; the tail cuneiform, composed of twelve 

 feathers, of which the six middle are cinereous, 

 the outer of a pure white ; the legs light olive 

 brown, three quarters of an inch long; the 

 claws black; the outer toe very slightly con- 

 nected at the base to the middle one by a mem- 

 brane."* Ed. 



* Mont. orn. diet. App, 



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