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in which it is looked at ; there is a broad band at the base of the neck 

 in front, and at the sides faintly tinged with very pale straw colour ; 

 there is not the faintest tinge of rosy anywhere ; the whole of the 

 feathers of the head and neck are very narrow, long, soft and silky, 

 much curled and twisted on the head, especially behind and just above 

 the eye ; and the feathers of the back of the head are much elongated, 

 so as to form a dense, full crest, some 4-25 inches long ; a line of feathers, 

 about 1-5 inches wide down the whole back of the neck, is of a more 

 snowy and less pearly white than the rest of the neck ; the scapulars, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts and median and greater wing-coverts are 

 conspicuously black shafted ; and all these, except the longest of the 

 scapulars, are very long and lanceolate. A few of the longest scapulars 

 are broad and round, or mucronate at the end ; back, scapulars and 

 tail with a beautiful satiny gloss ; the two exterior tail feathers with 

 nearly the whole shafts black and generally with a decided grey tinge 

 on the outer web to near the tip ; the rest of the tail feathers with 

 only the terminal third of the shafts black ; primaries (all of which are 

 white at the base) and their coverts and winglet very dark brown, 

 almost black ; the second to the fifth primary emarginate on the outer 

 web and silvered with grey on the last above the emargination, which 

 in the second is hidden by the coverts ; there is more or less silvering 

 of grey on the outer webs of all the other primaries, their coverts and 

 winglets ; the first five primaries are faintly notched on the inner web, 

 and more pale or greyish white on the latter above the notches, while 

 the rest of the primaries have the inner portions of the inner webs 

 white, this is still more conspicuous in the secondaries, most of which 

 have their whole outer webs a silver grey ; the tertials are pure white ; 

 the feathers of the base of the neck and breast thickly set, very narrow 

 and pointed, the filaments along the margin a good deal separated. 



The young bird wants the linear lanceolate feathers. It has the 

 whole head, neck, and upper and lower surface white ; the back of the 

 neck more or less shaded with grey ; tips of the quills and a row of 

 small coverts near the margin of the wing pale wood brown ; the 

 feathers of the head shorter and more fur-] ike than in the male ; crest 

 small ; scapulars and shoulder feathers broadly tipped with pale brown, 

 with dark shafts ; tail feathers white at the base on both webs ; greater 

 part of the rest of the inner web white; primaries and secondaries 

 white at their bases ; a large portion of their inner webs white ; the 

 rest a darkish brown. 



Adult. — Irides white, in the young pale yellow ; legs and feet pale 

 plumbeous; edges of upper and lower mandibles for the terminal two- 

 thirds yellowish, and in the young a horny whitey brown, or yellowish 

 grey ; the nail orange or pale orange. In the breeding plumage the 

 pouch is a deep orange red, with a black patch on either side, just at 

 the base of the lower mandible; in the non-breeding plumage a dirty 

 primrose, or pale fleshy, tinged with lemon yellow. 



Length. — Male, 70 to 74-5 inches, expanse 114 to 122, tail 9-5 to 10, 

 wing 26-25 to 29-2ri; bill at front including nail 15-4 to 166. Females 



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