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which extends beyond the bill; plumage above ash-colour, streaked 

 with dusky down the shafts of the feathers, mottled on each side 

 with a white spot; beneath pale ash-colour, mottled with white and 

 brown, and marked down the shafts with a dusky black streak ; 

 quills dusky, the third the longest, the exterior shorter by one inch 

 and a quarter, and a little serrated on the outer edge, similar to very 

 many of the Owl Genus, and all of them marked on the outer web 

 with six or seven white spots at regular distances, and on the inner 

 with some marbled bars; the tail is seven inches and a half long, 

 moderately cuneiform, the two middle feathers pointed at the ends, 

 the outer one an inch and a half shorter, the intermediate graduating 

 in proportion ; all of them mottled on the back, and crossed with 

 seven or eight undulated dusky black bars ; legs stout, brown ; the 

 wings, when closed, reach rather beyond the middle of the tail ; the 

 middle claw not pectinated. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — In the collection of Lord Stanley. 



39. -COLD-RIVER GOATSUCKER. 



LENGTH nineteen inches. Bill three inches long, very stout. 



and hooked ; plumage dark, varied, streaked with black down the 



shafts of the feathers, each of which is tipped with black ; quills 



marked on the outer web with five white spots; tail seven inches and 



a half long, pale, mottled and somewhat banded, each feather ending 



in a point, but no white spots on any of thern ; legs stout, black, the 



segments whitish. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — A specimen brought from the Cold 

 River. 



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