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the shoulders, and down the middle of the wings, the colour inclines 

 to buff; tail plain, pale ash colour; the legs of the white one pink; 

 of the other pale, nearly white. 



22.— CHOCOLATE. 



THE general colour of the plumage deep chocolate brown ; 

 middle wing coverts deep brownish red, or liver colour, fonning a 

 sweeping bar across the wing ; head and throat bare, and dirty red, 

 but the back of the head and neck covered with feathers ; crop or 

 craw bare, dirty red; the bill nearly strait, or little curved, horn 

 colour, with a conspicuous cere; legs stout, scaly, pale yellowish 

 brown; claws almost strait, and whitish. 



Inhabits India, where it is called Gid. 



Length four feet; bill more than three inches, black; under 

 mandible brown ; cere and base flesh colour ; head covered with 

 brown do^vn ; eye surrounded with a bare flesh coloured space— a 

 streak of the same from behind to the hind head, and another on 

 each lower jaw, the rest of the plumage wholly deep brown ; the 

 feathers round the throat formed as a ruff; the wings reach three- 

 fourths on the tail; legs pale red, feathered halfway on the shins; 

 claws rather hooked. 



Inhabits India, probably allied to the last described — General 

 Hardwicke, 



