Total length 9-9:12 inches, bill from gape 1:62, bill at front 1:5, tail from vent 
1:5—1:82, wing 4°75, tarsus 1:50—162. 
The type is in the Leyden Museum, and was sent to me in London for comparison, 
and is represented in the plate published with my paper in the ‘Ibis’ for 1870. 
Mr. Gould imagined the large bill was used to break the shells of the mollusks on 
which the bird feeds. 
