(Estrelata mollis and its Allies. 30;i 



p. 411 (partim), pi. 721 (figura optima) (Madeira) (1896) ; 

 Sharpe, Haud-list Gen. & Species of B. i. p. 125, no. 9 

 (part., Madeira) (1899). 



" Go/i-^o« " of the inhabitants of Silo Nicolao, Fea, Boll. 

 Soc. Geogr. Ital. (3) xii. p. 2:5 (Cape Verde I.) (1899). 



(Estrelata fecB Salvad. Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. (2) xx. p. 305 

 (Cape Verde I.) (1899). 



(Estrelata (E. molli (Gould) simillima, sed major, corpore 

 subtus albo, baud fascia pectorali cinerea ornato, lateri- 

 busqne magis griseo variis, diversa. 

 Supra fusco-grisea ; collo postico et laterali, dorso, et 

 scapularibus anterioribus magis grisescentibus, plumarum 

 marginibus griseis ; supracaudalibus griseis, lateralibus 

 ad apicem albo variis ; plumis froutis albo margiuatis ; 

 macula ante- et suboculari nigrioante ; loris antice, 

 parte ima geuarum, mento, gula, collo antico, pectore, 

 abdomine, et subcaudalibus albis ; plumis colli laterum 

 fusco-cinereis albo limbatis ; lateribus corporis et 

 axillaribus anterioribus tenuissime cinereo marmoratis : 

 alis fuscis, tectricibus niajoribus griseo tinctis; reraigibus 

 in pogonio interno vix pallidioribus ; axillaribus loiigi- 

 oribus fusco-cinereis, fere concoloribus : cauda cinerea, 

 rectricibus externis, prsecipue extima, albo punctulatis : 

 rostro nigro ; tarsis et parte basali digitorum cum 

 membrana interdigitali pallidis (albidis ?) ; pedibus 

 aliter nigris. Long. tot. circa mm. 380; al. 280; caud. 

 rectr. med. 110, rectr. ext. 77 \ rostri culm. 30; tarsi 33 ; 

 digiti ext. cum ungue 35. 

 Hab. iti Oceano Atlantico boreali, circa ins. Madeiram et 

 Cape Verde dictas. 



Most probably (E. feca is confined to the islands off the 

 western coast of Africa, north of the Equator. Up to the 

 present time it has been found only on the small islands 

 round Madeira, and quite recently by Signor Leonardo Fea 

 in the Cape Verde Islands ; but it is not unlikely that it will 

 be met with also on some of the Canaries, where it may have 

 escaped notice on account of its nocturnal habits. 



From what we know of the geographical distribution of the 

 two allied species, (E. mollis and (E.fecB, it appears that the 

 first not only never crosses the Equator, but has never been 

 found north of the 20th or perhaps of the 30th parallel, so 

 that the areas of the two species are widely separated. 



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