(ESTRELATA LONGIROSTRIS. 



tail-feathers brown, more or less ashy towards the base, the lateral ones ashy-grey, 

 somewhat freckled with white, the outermost white, ashy-grey along the outer web ; 

 crown of head black, somewhat overspreading the hind-neck, and encircling the eye, 

 and extending along the upper edge of the ear-coverts ; forehead white, spotted with 

 black in the centre ; lores, and feathers above the fore-part of the eye, sides of face, 

 cheeks, and entire under-surface of body pure white, with a patch of ashy-grey feathers 

 extending over the sides of the fore-neck and chest ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 pure white, with a somewhat broken band round the edge of the wing, composed of black 

 or dark ashy-grey feathers ; quills blackish below, slightly more ashy on the inner 

 webs, these being white for more than half their length, thus forming a conspicuous 

 white quill-lining. Total length about 10.5 inches ; culmen, 0.95 ; wing, 8.1 ; tail, 3.9 ; 

 tarsus, 1.1 ; middle toe and claw, 1.35. 



The description is taken from one of the specimens in the Rothschild Museum. 



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