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separated, so as to display a beautiful stripe of naked 

 orange skin running from the corners of the mouth 

 towards the back of the head." 



All the species lay but one egg. 



The following is Latham's description: — "Length 

 three feet; breadth seven. Bill four inches long, 

 hooked at the end, but not very stout; the colour of 

 it is black, except the upper ridge, which is yellow 

 the whole length quite to the tip, where it is hooked; 

 the base of the upper mandible is also yellow; irides 

 brown; the head is grey; between the bill and the 

 eyes is an obtuse black spot, just over the eye a dusky 

 one; the hind part of the neck dusky, the lower 

 part white; back, scapulars, and wings dusky blue 

 black; rump and under part of the body w^hite; the 

 tail dusky; the legs are pale yellowish white; the fore 

 part of them and the webs dusky." 



My figure is taken from Gould's Birds of Australia. 



It has also been figured by Latham, Syn., vol. iii., 

 p. o09; and Temminck ct Laugier, pi. col. 468. 



