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WHITE-BODIED GRAKLE. 
the breast to the under tail-covers, the plumage is 
of a snowy whiteness. 
The female is totally different. The upper plu- 
mage is varied, with light ferruginous on a brownish- 
black ground ; each of the body-feathers, above, 
being brown with only the side margins ferruginous. 
The wing-covers, scapulars, and tertials have each a 
narrow margin all round ; hut there is none on the 
other quills or on the tail. The under plumage to the 
breast is rufous-white, with a narrow stripe down 
each feather ; the breast and the remaining parts pure 
white, with similar stripes but larger and longer ; 
base of the quills, beneath, pure ferruginous ; under 
tail-covers, white ; bill and legs, brown. 
Total length, 6 inches ; hill, from the gape, ; 
wings, 3f ; tail, beyond, l ; from the base, 2|-; 
tarsus, j\. 
From the starling family we pass on to that of the 
