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forehead ashy-white, sprinkled with blackish; feathers below 
t e eye dubjcy blackish ; sides of face and entire throat white, 
vvith a few dusky freckhngs on the ear-coverts and borders of 
the white throat ; under surface of body ashy-grey, lighter on 
the lower abdomen and under tail-coverts, the iLg coveL being 
whitish freckled with grey ; the chest darker and more slatv- 
grey, the sides of the breast browner ; axillaries ashy-grev • 
under wmg-coverts white, the lesser and median coverts slatv- 
black; quill-lining ashy-grey; bill black; tarsi and proximal 
half of the toes (except the outer one) yellowish, the rest black: 
dotal length, 10-5 inches; culmen, oqs; wing, St; tail, 3-8; 
The above description is taken from the British specimen, 
which belongs to the dark form of the species. Some speci- 
mens, however, are white below and have a dark grey band 
across the breast. 
Characters.— The present species belongs to the same section 
0 the genus CEstrelata as the preceding species. It has the 
dark outer primary and the wide bill of (E. fmsitata, and the 
under surface is more or less white; the crown is slaty-black 
and the upper tail coverts are grey ; the under wing-coverts 
and axillaries are white, and the wing does not exceed S -? 
inches. ‘ 
Range m Great Britain. — A single specimen of this small 
1 etre has been procured in England. Mr. Willis Bund 
by whom the bird in question was presented to the British 
Museum, states that it was obtained on the coast in Wales 
between Borth and Aberystwith at the end of November or the 
beginning of December, 1889. 
Range outside the British Islands.— Until its occurrence on the 
Lritisli Coast this species was only known as an inhabitant 
tr 1 l^acific Ocean. Specimens from the New 
Hebrides and the Fiji Islands arc in the British Museum, and 
the original specimens of the species were obtained by Beale 
on the southern ice-barrier in lat. 68° S. 
Habits.— According to the late John Macgillivray, the 
Katdbu, as it is called in the New Hebrides, breeds on 
Aneiteiim in burrows on the wooded mountain-tops in the 
