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plumage on all the upper part of the body is sooty 

 black : the chin and throat very pale : the fore part 

 of the breast and belly paler than above, and greatly 

 inclining to ash-colour : the belly dirty white in the 

 middle : legs dusky. 



Inhabits the islands between Asia and North Ame- 

 rica. Temminck says that this is the young of the 

 foregoing bird, but the form and colour of the beak 

 appear to controvert that opinion. Dr. Latham has 

 made a separate division for this species, in the new 

 edition of his Synopsis, on account of the depressed 

 beak with which it is furnished. 



V. XIII, p. I, 



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