(Estrelata mollis and its Allies. 
303 
p. 411 (partirn), pi. 721 (figura optima) (Madeira) (1896) ; 
Sharpe, Hand-list Gen. & Species of B. i. p. 125, no. 9 
(part., Madeira) (1899). 
“ Gon-gon” of the inhabitants of Sao Nicolao, Fea, Boll. 
Soc. Geogr. Ital. (3) xii. p. 23 (Cape Verde I.) (1899). 
(Estrelata fea Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) xx. p. 305 
(Cape Verde I.) (1899). 
(Estrelata (E. molli (Gould) simillima, sed major, corpore 
subtus albo, baud fascia peetorali cinerea ornato, lateri- 
busque magis griseo variis, diversa. 
Supra fusco-grisea; collo postico et laterali, dorso, et 
scapularibus anterioribus magisgrisescentibus, plumarum 
marginibus griseis; supracaudalibus griseis, lateralibus 
ad apicem albo variis ; plumis frontis albo marginatis; 
macula ante- et suboculari nigricante; loris antice, 
parte ima genarum, men to, gula, collo antico, pectore, 
abdomine, et subcaudalibus albis ; plumis colli laterum 
fusco-cinereis albo limbatis ; lateribus corporis et 
axillaribus anterioribus tenuissime cinereo marmoratis : 
alis fuscis, tectricibus majoribus griseo tinctis; remigibus 
in pogonio interno vix pallidioribus ; axillaribus longi- 
oribus fusco-cinereis, fere concoloribus : eauda cinerea, 
rectricibus externis, praeeipue extima, albo punctulatis : 
rostro nigro; tarsis et parte basali digitorum cum 
membrana interdigitali pallidis (albidis ?) ; pedibus 
aliter nigris. Long. tot. circa mm. 380; al. 280; caud. 
rectr. med. 110, rectr. ext. 77 ; rostri culm. 30; tarsi 33 ; 
digiti ext. cum ungue 35. 
Hab . in Oceano Atlantico boreali, circa ins. Madeiram et 
Cape Verde dictas. 
Most probably (E. fees is confined to the islands off the 
western coast of Africa, north of the Equator. Up to the 
present time it has been found only on the small islands 
round Madeira, and quite recently by Signor Leonardo Fea 
in the Cape Verde Islands; but it is not unlikely that it will 
be met with also on some of the Canaries, where it may have 
escaped notice on account of its nocturnal habits. 
From what we know of the geographical distribution of the 
two allied species, CE. mollis and (E . jea>, it appears that the 
first not only never crosses the Equator, but has never been 
found north of the 20th or perhaps of the 30th parallel, so 
that the areas of the two species are widely separated. 
