1 7 6 THE CHEER.
The bill is horny brown, always pale, sometimes very much
so and yellowish, sometimes with a bluish grey tinge; the
irides are bright reddish to orange, or yellowish brown ; the
legs and feet pale brownish plumbeous, or grey brown on the
scaled front of the tarsi and toes, and pinker or more fleshy on
the reticulated backs of the tarsi, sides of toes and back of the
feet ; the bare space round the eyes is scarlet crimson, very
bright in some birds, and in some dotted with pinky white in
one or more lines.
T H E PLATE is all that could be hoped for from a chromo,
1 ' - J-~1- ~r *> c-*,,. r^a». ; c n^rf^rt nirtture of the
