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667 [[underlined]] Colymbus torquatus [[/underlined]] ft Resolution about June 5. [[strikethrough]] If this is [[underlined]] torquatus [[/underlined]], no 630 is a new species & vice versa. In this [[/strikethrough]] The bill is entirely pitch black. Legs & feet pitch black eternally & posteriorly, with a little olive on the inside of the legs & two inner toes. The coloration of the ^[[two]] [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] except bill & feet much the same, & I cannot be sure from the description which is [[underlined]] torquatus [[/underlined]] though from the color of the bill I suppose this one is. The other is a very much larger & heavier bird, a third larger I should think. There are in the collection 3 specimens of the large one, & 4 to 5 of this species. K