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tip 2-L; from the tip to the posterior edge of the plate on the fore¬ 
head, 8 3; wing, 8|; tail, 3|; tarsi, 31; middle toe, 3; nail, 1; 
hind-toe, 1; nail, f-. , ,, 
I cannot conclude these remarks without bearing testimony to the 
very great importance of the results which have attended the re¬ 
searches of Mr. Walter Mantell in the various departments of science 
to which he has turned the attention of his cultivated, intelligent and 
inquiring mind, nor without expressing a hope that he may yet be 
enabled to obtain some particulars as to the history of this and the 
other remarkable birds of the country in which he is resident. 
