. A history of British birds . urally be different. In the adult bird the bill is black, the base of the undermandible chrome-yellow, and the naked skin about the gapeblack, thickly studded with small round yellow spots ; theirides green ; the forehead bearing a crest curved forward,assumed very early in the spring; the crown, neck, breast,and all the under surface of the body a rich dark green withpurple and bronze reflections ; back and wing-coverts darkgreen, each feather with a narrow, but darker margin; wingand the twelve tail-feathers black; legs, toes, and their mem-branes black. Total
. A history of British birds . urally be different. In the adult bird the bill is black, the base of the undermandible chrome-yellow, and the naked skin about the gapeblack, thickly studded with small round yellow spots ; theirides green ; the forehead bearing a crest curved forward,assumed very early in the spring; the crown, neck, breast,and all the under surface of the body a rich dark green withpurple and bronze reflections ; back and wing-coverts darkgreen, each feather with a narrow, but darker margin; wingand the twelve tail-feathers black; legs, toes, and their mem-branes black. Total length twenty-seven inches ; of the wingfrom the wrist ten inches and three-quarters. Both sexesare alike in plumage. Young birds have the bill very slender, the membrane ofthe lower mandible yellow; the upper plumage brown, tintedwith green ; the under surface brownish-ash, mingled withwhite. Mr. J. Whitaker has a variety, shot in Scotland in thewinter of 1883, of a cream colour with light brown markingson the back and GANNET. STEOANOPODES. 155
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