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and lower mandibles, and furnished with a nail at the tip on 
both ; the whole being of a light-reddish purple or pale lake, 
except the gibbosity, which is black, and the two nails, which 
are of a pale light blue; nostril, pervious, an oblong slit, 
placed nearly in the middle of the upper mandible ; irides, 
dark brown ; whole head, and half of the neck, white; rest of 
the neck and breast, as well as upper part of the back, of a 
purplish brown, darkest where it joins the white ; all the fea- 
thers being finely tipt with pale brown ; whole wing-coverts, 
very pale ash, or light lead colour ; primaries and secondaries, 
black; tertials, long, tapering, centred with black, edged with 
light blue, and usually fall over the wing ; scapulars, cinereous 
brown ; lower parts of the back and rump, of the same light 
ash as the wing-coverts ; tail, rounded, blackish, consisting of 
sixteen feathers, edged and tipt broadly with white; tail-coverts 
white ; belly and vent, whitish, intermixed with cinereous ; 
feet and legs, of the same lake colour as the bill. 
This specimen was a female; the tongue was thick and 
fleshy, armed on each side with thirteen strong bony teeth, 
exactly similar in appearance, as well as in number, to those 
on the tongue of the snow goose; the inner concavity of the 
upper mandible was also studded with rows of teeth. The 
stomach was extremely muscular, filled with some vegetable 
matter and clear gravel. 
With this, another was shot, differing considerably in its 
markings, having little or no white on the head, and being 
smaller ; its general colour, dark brown, intermixed with pale 
ash, and darker below, but evidently of the same species with 
the other. 
