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78 MICRORHOPIAS BOUCARDI BOUCARDI (Sclater).

Adult male. — General color deep black, passing into slate color on sides and flanks; interscapulars extensively pure white beneath the surface (partly exposed); anterior portion of lesser wing-covert area (except on bend of wing) white, the other lesser coverts and middle coverts with a small roundish terminal spot of white; greater coverts broadly tipped with white, forming a very conspicuous band across wing; rectrices (except middle pair) broadly tipped with white (the white tips growing smaller toward middle rectrices); under wing- coverts (except along border of wing) and broad edgings to inner web of remiges white; bill black; iris brown; legs and feet blackish (grayish blue in life); length (skins), 98-111 (106); wing, 47-50.5 (48.6); tail, 43-49 (45.6); culmen, 13-14.5 (13.7); tarsus, 14.5-16 (15.5); middle toe, 8.5-9 (8.9).

Adult female. — Above marked with white as in adult male (that on interscapular region more restricted, however), but black of head, neck, back, and rump replaced by dark slate color or blackish slate (more or less intermixed with black on interscapular region); under parts (including malar region) plain rufous-tawny, deepest on throat and chest; under wing-coverts and edges of inner webs of remiges white, as in adult male; bill, etc., as in adult male, but the former usually more brownish; length (skins), 96-117 (107); wing, 46.5-49 (47.7); tail, 43.5-47.5 (45.6); culmen, 12.5-14.5 (13.3); tarsus, 14.5-16 (15.4); middle toe, 8.5-9.5 (8.8).