CESTRELATA NIGRIPENNIS. 



white fringes ; tail-feathers slaty-grey, blackish-brown at the ends, and on the inner 

 web, the outer feather for the most part white on the inner web, which is blackish-brown 

 towards the tip, the outer web entirely mottled with slaty-grey ; crown of head 

 slightly darker ashy-grey than the back, the feathers with obsolete white fringes ; 

 forehead and feathers over the eye white, the latter with black centres producing a 

 spotted appearance, the adjoining portions of the crown being similarly spotted ; lores 

 and cheeks pure white ; sides of face white, spotted with black below the eye, which 

 is enclosed in a patch of black ; under-surface of body pure white, including the under 

 tail-coverts ; the sides of the neck mottled with bars of light ashy-grey, continued on to 

 the sides of the breast in frecklings and vermiculations of the same colour ; axillaries 

 white ; under wing-coverts white, including the under primary-coverts, some of them 

 edged with black, as also a few of the outermost of the greater series ; marginal under 

 wing-coverts black, extending round the edge of the wings ; quills black below, white 

 towards the base of the inner web. Total length about 12.0 inches ; culmen, 1.0 ; 

 wing, 8.7 ; tail, 3.8 ; tarsus, 1.1 ; middle toe and claw, 1.5. 



The description is taken from one of the typical specimens in the Rothschild 

 Collection. 



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