Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Illustrations of British Ornithology, Vol. 2
Bill longer than the head, straight, strong, laterally com pressed, the tip convexo-conical, pointed. Mandibles Of equal length and height; culmen, from the base to onehalf of the length of the bill, ?at and, indistinct, from thence to the tip rounded; nasal furrow reaching rather beyond the mid dle Of the bill, broad and deep. Tomia straight, parallel, smooth, except near the tip, where they are slightly and fine ly serrated. Ascending angle of the lower mandible with a rounded culmen.
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