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FLAT-BILLED STARIKI ? 



slender white feathers : the head and neck black : the 

 back the same, marked with ferruginous-brown spots, 

 changing into hoary on the rump : the under parts of 

 a dusky-brown : the wings reach to the base of the 

 tail, which is black, and consists of fourteen feathers ; 

 the outermost but one ferruginous at the tip ; the 

 outer one marked with indistinct white dots : legs 

 livid : webs dusky. Inhabits the islands contiguous 

 to Japan ; sleeping in burrows on shore and fissures 

 of rocks." — Latham, 



FLAT-BILLED STARIKI ? 



(Phaleris? pygmea.) 



Ph p corpore atro, subtus cinereo, rostro nigro. 

 Stariki? with the body dark-coloured, beneath cinereous, the 

 beak black. 



Alca pygmea. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 555. Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 796. 

 Pygmy Auk. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 431. 



Flat-billed Auk. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 328. Lath. Gen. Hist- 

 X. 72. 



Less than the Common Sea-dove : length seven 

 inches : beak black ; ridged on the top, but on each 

 side of the ridge much depressed : the nostrils are 

 placed parallel to the edge of the upper mandible ; 

 and the point of the beak is somewhat curved : the 

 visage is rather elongated, as in the Perroquet; and 

 the sides of the head, between the beak and the eye, 

 are furnished with a few narrow pale feathers : the 



