DESCRIPTION OF SIGMODUS CANICEPS. 
SIGMODUS, Temm. 
“Char. Gen. — Rostrum longiusculum, rictus aduncum, culmine 
rotundato, naribus linearibus, plumis frontalibus setaceis antrorsum 
incumbentibus suboccultis. 
Pedes breves, graciles, debiles, digitus externus, internus et 
posticus subaequales ; ungues debiles, pallidi. 
Ala elongata, dimidium caudae attingens, subrotundata, remix 
4 ta. longissima, 3 et 5 subaequales, secunda multo brevior, prima 
spuria. 
Cauda mediocris, subrotundata. 
Ptilosis sericea, tergi et uropygii plumae longiusculae, molles, 
laxae. 
S. caniceps, Temm. — Niger, nitore nonnullo aeneo, pileo cano ; 
pectore et epigastrio albis ; abdomine et sub-caudalibus dilute ful- 
vis ; rostro et pedibus rubris. 
Body above, wings, tail, head, neck all round, throat and chin, 
black, with a faint greenish or brown gloss ; crown of a circum- 
script beautiful light bluish-grey; nasal feathers the same; the 
whole breast white. Body below, vent and under tail-coverts 
ochraceous ; all the larger remiges have a large square snow-white 
spot on the inner web , by which a very regular white band is 
formed on the inner side of the wing ; inner coverts all black ; 
the soft long feathers of the tergum are mixed with white but not 
very distinctly ; bill and feet coral red. 
Gold Coast. Mus. Brem.” 
Entire length, 7.5; wing to fourth quill, 4 . 7 . 
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