OCEANODROMA MONORHIS. 



Anthony, are white, faintly speckled with reddish dots at the larger end, forming a cap 

 in one of the eggs and a zone in the other. Axis, 1.2 inch ; diam., 0.9 (cf. Oates, Cat. 

 Eggs Brit. Mus., I., p. 149, PI. XL, Fig. 6.) 



Adult female (type of species). Above sooty-brown, with a slight plumbeou3 

 gloss ; rump and upper tail-coverts like the back ; head and neck rather more plumbeous 

 than the back ; the forehead, sides of face and throat rather paler ashy-grey ; 

 remainder of under-surface, including the under wing-coverts, axillaries, and under- 

 tail-coverts, slightly paler than the upper-surface, and inclining to chocolate-brown ; 

 lesser upper wing-coverts sooty-black, like the scapulars and innermost secondaries, 

 some of the latter fringed with hoary-white ; median and greater coverts lighter and 

 more ashy-brown, narrowly fringed with hoary-white ; primary-coverts, quills, and tail- 

 feathers black ; " bill black ; inside of mouth flesh-colour ; tongue flat and broadly 

 sagittate, furrowed down the middle and on either side ; legs black ; the inner side 

 of the inner toe and both sides of the middle toe whitish near their bases " (R. Swinhoe). 

 Total length, 7.5 inches ; culmen 0.6 ; wing, 5.95 ; tail, 2.8 ; central rectrices, 

 2.2 ; tarsus, 0.9 ; middle toe and claw, 0.9. 



The description is taken from the typical specimen now in the British Museum, 

 from which also the figure in the Plate has been drawn. 



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