66. (ESTRELATA MAGENTA, Gigl. and Salvad. 



(GIGLIOLI'S FULMAR.) 

 (Plate 55.) 



Mstrdata magentce, Giglioli and Salvadori, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat., XI., p. 451 

 (1868) ; iid., Ibis, 1869, pp. 61, 66 ; Giglioli, Faun. Vertebr. Oceano, p. 41 

 (1870); id., Viagg. "Magenta," pp. 843, 884 (1875); Ridgway, Man. 

 N. Amer. Birds, p. 64 (1887). 



(Estrdata magentce, Salvin in Rowley's Orn. Misc., I., p. 251, PI. 30 (1876) ; id., Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 407 (1896). 



CE. molli similis, sed supra nigricans et fascia frontali nulla distinguenda. 



I have not seen an example of CE. magentce, but the typical specimen was 

 lent by Count Salvadori in 1876 to Salvin, who figured it in Rowley's 

 " Ornithological Miscellany," and at the same time the accompanying Plate was 

 drawn for this work. Salvin does not appear to have made any description of this 

 specimen, but simply reproduced the original of Professor Giglioli and Count 

 Salvadori. 



I am not aware that any second example of CE. magentce has been obtained, and, 

 judging from the published figures and the description, I am inclined to agree with 

 Salvin that its place is near CE. mollis. Such, however, was not the opinion of the 

 describers, who compared it with CE. rostrata, Peale, and said that it had " a robust 

 bill, as in that species, although not so high at the base, being broader than high. 

 The frontal feathers advance abruptly as far as the base of the nasal tubes. It differs 

 also in the darker and blacker colour of the upper-parts, the edges of each feather in 

 certain fights being distinctly lighter and wanting that sepia-brown tint so 

 characteristic of CE. rostrata (cf. Cassin, Orn. U. S. Expl. Exped., 1858, p. 412, PI. 41). 

 Our species, besides, has a white throat, and the forehead washed with silky white, 

 which extends laterally and posteriorly as far as over the eyes ; this is an important 

 diagnostic character. Besides the last feature, it differs from P. incerta of Schlegel in 

 its much darker upper-parts, its well-marked jugular band, its white under 

 tail-coverts, and its smaller dimensions " (Giglioli and Salvadori, Ibis, 1869, p. 62). 



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