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some tipped and edged with black ; the shoulder of the wing- 

 black ; some ornamented feathers on the sides, covering the 

 carpus of the wing, are white, bordered with black ; the lower 

 part of the back and rump white, with grey waving pencil- 

 lings : the quills are black ; the tail greyish-black. The eyes 

 are red ; the beak orange-red, approaching to tile-red ; the 

 toothed edges bordered with dusky; the nail horn-colour; 

 the legs and feet bright orange ; the nails dusky. 



The adult female has the head umber-brown, the chin 

 paler brown : all the upper parts, the sides of the breast and 

 belly are bistre, with paler edges to the feathers ; the lesser 

 wing-coverts, rump, and tail the same ; the speculum and 

 secondaries white ; the lower part of the neck and upper part 

 of the breast white, spotted with dusky, owing to the centres 

 of the feathers being of that colour ; the breast, belly, vent, 

 and under tail-coverts white ; the beak and legs are as in the 

 male, but less brightly coloured ; the eyes orange-red. 



Early in November, 1842, we shot a young male of 

 the present species below the weir, on the Thames near 

 Chertsey in Surrey. Its entire length was nineteen inches 

 and a half, the beak from the forehead two inches, from the 

 gape two inches six lines ; wing from carpus to tip eight 

 inches ; tarsus one inch nine lines. The tail had eighteen 

 feathers, the shafts of which were black and stiff, like whale- 

 bone ; the shafts of all the feathers of the upper plumage 

 black, except those of the speculum, which are white. The 

 beak pale red-lead, ridge of the upper mandible horn-colour ; 

 the inside of the mouth, teeth, and tongue, pale red-lead. 

 The head dark clove-brown ; the chin paler, nearly white; the 

 upper part of the neck rust-colour ; the lower part of the 

 neck ash, tipped with white ; back of the neck and tippet 

 darker ash-colour, tipped with grey : the same continues to the 

 tail-feathers, which are hoary black. All the lesser wing- 



