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the side of the ramp -with silky white tips ; lesser wing- coverts like 

 the back ; mediau and greater scries slaty grey with black bases, 

 and narrowly fringed with white ; bastard-wing black, narrowly 

 edged with slaty grey ; primary-coverts and quills black, externally 

 slaty grey, the primaries edged Avith paler and more ashy grey ; 

 upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers black, the four outer 

 ones with a white spot at the tip, gradually increasing in extent 

 towards the outermost, which has the terminal half white as well as 

 the greater part of the outer web ; crown of head slaty grey like 

 the back ; across the forehead a broad band of black, continued in a 

 broad band of black down the sides of the crown ; lores, feathers 

 round and below the eye, cheeks, and ear-coverts black ; a broad 

 streak of white from above the eye to the sides of the neck ; 

 the latter slaty grey mixed with black ; entire throat white, with 

 narrow dusky shaft-lines ; fore neck and chest with a broad band 

 of pale rose-colour, joined to a baud of the same colour which ex- 

 tends down the centre of the breast and abdomen on to the under 

 tail-covens ; sides of the body and Hanks white ; thighs also doll 

 white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, the edge of the 

 wing ashy grey, and a patch of the same colour on the lower coverts ; 

 quills blackish below, white along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 5'8 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-65, tail 3, tarsus 0-9. 



Adult female. General colour above dull ashy grey, washed with 

 ochreous brown ; wing-coverts like the back, with ashy-whitish 

 ends to the feathers ; quills dusky broM'u, edged with ashy and 

 washed with ochreous brown ; tail as in the male, but browner in- 

 stead of black ; forehead, a broad eyebrow, sides of face, ear- 

 coverts, and sides of neck ochreous buff, whiter on the lores and 

 eyelid ; under surface ochreous buff, rather whiter on the throat 

 and abdomen, and tinged with ochreous on the thighs and under 

 tail-coverts ; axillaries and iinder wing-coverts white ; quills dusky 

 below, white along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5*9 

 inches, culmen (j-O, Aving 2-45, tail 2-S, tarsus 0-85. 



Young male. Duller grey than the old male, and having the ear- 

 coverts dark ochreoTis brown ; the white band along the sides of the 

 hinder crown tinged with ochreous ; under surface of body almost 

 entirely white, with a certain amount of pale rose-colour on the 

 centre of the breast and abdomen ; under tail-coverts entirely rose- 

 Cjlour. 



Hah. Tres Marias Islands. 



a. c? ad. sk Tres Marias Islands, Mfiy 9 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{A. Ferrer). 



b. d .juv. sk. Tres Marias, April 26 (A. F.). Salvin-Godman C..11 



c. 2 ad. sk. Tres Marias, Feb. 24 (A. F). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Granatellus sallsei. 



Granatellus sallfei, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 292, Aves, pi. 120, 1858, 

 p. 97, 1859, p. 374 ; Scl. ^- Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 397 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 

 1864, p. 607 ; Baird, Pevieiv Aiuer. B. p. 232 (li^65) ; Sumic/a; 

 Mem. Bost. Sue. N. 11. i. p. 546 (18C'JJ ; Scl. cjj- Sulv. Komciwl. Av. 



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