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side, and contrasting finely with the dark parts ; the 
feet are remarkably small and slender. M. Lesson has 
formed from this species his subgenus Ramphodon, 
under which it should now stand. It is yet a solitary 
representative, and the female is unnoticed by any 
ornithological writer. 
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