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The dedication of this fine species to Captain Charles Willies, of the 

 United States Navy, under whose command the voyage of the Explor- 

 ing Expedition was performed, Ave regard as a just and suitable testi- 

 monial to the valuable services to science of that distinguished officer. 



Our plate represents this bird about two-thirds of the size of life. 



4. Carpophaga latrans, Peah. 

 Carpophar/a latrans, Peale, Zoology, Exp. Exp. Birds, p. 200 (1st ed. 1848). 



Atlas, Ornithology, Plate XXVI. Adults. 



Cauda supra ruhro-fusca. Corpore supra saturate fusco, capite et collo 

 cinereis. Corpore infra cinereo-vinaceo, ahdomine saturatiore, crissis 

 Jiavescenti fuscis. Long. tot. IQ poll ices. 



Form. — Large, about the size of C. cineracea (Temm.). Bill rather 

 long and slender (without a frontal protuberance, in the specimens 

 here described) ; wing moderate ; third primary longest ; tail rather 

 long, truncate, or slightly emarginate, containing fourteen feathers ; 

 legs short ; tarsus feathered for more than half its length, and show- 

 ing in front three broad scales ; toes much flattened on their under 

 surface ; hind toe, with a row of bristles on each side of the central 

 row of scales throughout its length. Claws strong, curved, flattened. 



Dimensions. — Male. Total length, from tip of bill to end of tail 

 (of skin), about sixteen inches; wing, nine and a half inches ; tail, 

 seven inches ; bill, to the corner of the mouth, one and a half inches ; 

 tarsus, one and one-eighth of an inch. 



Colors. — -Male. Tail above, glossy reddish-brown (or liver-brown) ; 

 below much lighter, with a fine glaucous cast. Head and back cine- 

 reous, tinged with reddish ; other upper parts dark-brown, glossy. 

 Neck before, and breast, ashy purple (or vinaceous), which color 

 blends into light reddish fulvous on the abdomen ; inferior tail-coverts 

 pale yellowish-brown or tawny, every feather darker at its base, and 

 delicately mottled and punctated with brown. Quills brownish-black, 



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