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descending between the white from the 
back to the tail ; of the four middle tail 
feathers two are eight inches, the others are 
about four and a half inches long."* 
The editor cannot omit this opportunity 
of returning his sincere thanks to Jos. 
Sabine, Esq. for the kind and liberal man- 
ner in which he conveyed to him permission 
to make drawings from any specimen in 
his truly valuable collection of British 
Birds ; a favour which he trusts he shall 
ever remember with gratitude. 
* Since the foregoing remarks went to press, we 
have been gratified with the examination of several 
specimens which were exposed to sale in the Norwich 
Market in the early part of November, 1819. It is 
the only instance we remember of this species having 
been shot in Norfolk. We purchased three specimens, 
two of which proved upon dissection to be males, and 
the other a female ; this latter agrees with Temminck's 
description of that sex. One of the male birds had a 
single feather, which measured two and a quarter in- 
ches longer than the rest. The other had fourteen 
feathers in its tail rather cuneiform but no material 
differance observable in their length, The legs of all of 
them were bluish; webs and nails black: their gizzards 
were filled with a species of weed which we are unac- 
quainted with, mixed with a few pebbles. We have 
given a plate of one of the specimens, as likewise a 
correct representation of its singular trachea which will 
enable our readers to ascertain the species in any change 
of plumage. 
