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the whole face, quite beyond the eyes, bare of feathers, black, and 

 warty, particularly round the eyelids ; beneath the chin hangs a 

 loose, wrinkled, bare skin, forming a pouch ; crown of the head 

 deep fulvous yellow, and the feathers at the back part longish ; the 

 rest of the neck and breast pale yellow ; back and scapulars cinereous, 

 margined with brown ; across the breast a band of the same ; feathers 

 of the back brown in the middle; wing coverts bluish ash-colour, 

 margined with brown; quills, sides, thighs, vent, and tail, greenish 

 black ; the last has twelve feathers, and rounded in shape ; legs 

 seven inches long, rough, naked a little way above the knee, and 

 red ; claws black. 



This bird was found by the late Dr. J. R. Forster, on New- Year's 

 Island, near Staaten Land,* where it builds the nest in inaccessible 

 places, in the rocks. — Described from a specimen in the collection 

 of Sir Joseph Banks. 



I observed also one in the Museum of Mr. Bullock: in this the 

 breast and top of the head are ferruginous ; the neck rufous white. 



* Forster's Voyage, ii. 521. 



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