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nostrils are covered with brownish white hair-like feathers, and this 

 stripe of white passes from thence down the side of the neck to the 

 sides, spreading under the wings ; the upper half of the wings are 

 white, but concealed by the black coverts ; the lower extremities 

 of the wings are black; so that the white on the wing is not seen 

 but when the bird is flying, at which time it is very prominent; the 

 tail is tapering, the feathers being very convex above and strong; 

 the legs are of a leaden grey color, very short, scarcely half an inch, 

 the toes very long, the claws strong and semicircular and of a pale 

 blue ; the bill is fluted, sharply ridged, very broad at the base, 

 bluish black above, below and at the point bluish white ; the eye is 

 of a bright golden color, the pupil black; the tongue, like those of 

 its tribe, is worm-shaped, except near the tip where for one-eighth 

 of an inch it is horny, pointed, and beset with barbs. 



The female has the forehead and nearly to the crown of a 

 light brown color, and the mustaches are dusky instead of red. In 

 both a fine line of white separates the red crest from the dusky 

 line that passes over the eye. 



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