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and soon after Hull, Beck, and mj-self went ashore after cactus for the tortoises. 

 Tower Island. Noticed ( 'reagrus, tropic birds, boohies, black terns, frigate birds, 

 shearwaters, petrels, and Larus fnliginosus. The shore on the N.E. end is rather 

 bold — steep bluffs and a small black sand beach. At breakfast the captain put a 

 Christmas present at each plate — some chocolate sticks for Beck, and four cigars 

 each for the rest of us. This, combined with some " ha-ha," was onr Christmas 

 celebration. We have sailed 1000 miles since leaving Tagus Cove. 



Dec. 26. — Harris, Hull and myself went ashore collecting. The walking was 

 very fair, principally smooth lava. Cactus was abundant iu patches, and gum trees 

 10 ft. high. Birds plentiful, especially Ce.rthidea and Xesomimi/.'i; found several 

 species of Geospiza, the Deiulroica and -Xesopel/a ; red-footed boobies were nesting 

 iu bushes all over the island, and we collected quite a number of eggs. Also saw 

 yellow-crowned night herons, frigate birds, petrels, short-eared owls and Lanis. 

 Hull found the eggs partly developed in a large-billed Geospiza that he skinned. I 

 collected some 30 birds. Hull and myself skinned 1.5 each in the afternoon. Saw 

 no iguanas except small ones. Noticed some small grasshoppers and one small 

 butterfly. 



Dec. 27. — Skinned birds all the morning. Dinner a little early, and went 

 ashore collecting ; took about 35 birds each. Tramped over a considerable part of the 

 island. In character the island is the same all over. Got a few red-footed boobies' 

 eggs. Also one egg of Crcigrus. Hull shot a cuckoo, but failed to lind it. Took iu 

 two boat-loads of cactus for the tortoise. Returned to the vessel at 7 p.m. This 

 was our last day on the Galapagos Islands. We reached San Francisco again on 

 Feb. 8th, 1898. " 



LIST OF THE MOST IMPORTANT WORKS AND ARTICLES ON THE 

 FAUNA OF THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, REFERUED TO IN THE 

 FOLLOWING PAGES. 



J. Gould. — Eemarks on a group of ground finches from Mr. Darwin's collection, with 



chai-acters of the new species. In I'roc. Zool. Soc. Loiul. 1837, pp. 4 — 7. 

 J. Gould axd Charles Darwin. — Zoology of the Voyage of the "Beagle " during the years 



1832—1836, vol. iii. Bii-ds (1841). 

 P. L. ScLATER AND OsBERT Salvin. — Characters of new species coUectecl by Dr. Hab"-! in the 



Galapagos Islands. In Proc. Zool. -S'oc. Land. 1870, pp. .S22 — 327. 

 OsBERT Salvin. — On the Avifauna of the Galapagos Archipelago. In Traits. Zool. Soc. 



Loml. V. ix., pp. 447—510, 1876. 

 Theodor Wolf. — Ein Besuch der Galapagos Inseln, Heidelberg, 1879. 

 Charles Darwin. — Journal of Researches, etc. Edition of 1890. Chapter xvii., pp. 397 — 



427. 

 A. R. Wallace. — Islaiul Life. Edition 1892. Chapter xiii. pp. 275—291. 

 W. L. and p. L. Sclater. — T/ie Geography of Mammals, pp. 53, 54 (1899). 

 E. Ridgway. — Birds of the Galapagos Archipelago. In Proc. U. S. Sat. 3/its. v. xix. pp. 



459 — G70, 1897, and previous articles of the same author. 

 G. Baur. — On the Origin of the Galapagos Islands. In Amer. iVaturalisl, 1891, pji. 217— 



229, 307—326. 

 G. Baub. — Ein Besuch der Galapagos Inseln. In Beilage zm- Miinckener AUgemeinen 



Zeitung, Febr. 1—4, 1892. 

 G. Baur. — Ein Besuch der Galapagos Inseln. In Biolog. C'erdralblatt, 1892, pp. 221 — 250. 



A reprint of the former article. 



