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Geospiza conirostrits. <J ad ! Hood I. 1801 (Banrcoll.) 



„ „ S fiTe ad. Hood I. Oct. Is97 (No. 2913). 



„ „ S juu. (bnt black). Oct. 1897 (No. 1909). 



cjjnu. „ „ (No. 1062). 



„ darwini. S ad. (tj'pe). Culpepper J. July 1897 (No. Iij7). 

 „ (luiia. S ad. Cliatliam I. June 1801 (No. 78, Banr coll.). 

 „ (lubia alhcmarlei. $ ad. Albemarle I. Nov. 1891 (No. 2468). 

 „ bauri. $ ad. (type). James I. Aug. 1891 (No. 562, Banr. 



coll.). 

 „ psittacula. S ad. James I. Sept. 1897 (No. 1287). 

 „ habeli. i ad. Bindloe I. Aug. 1897 (No. 703). 

 „ cnissirostris. c? ad. Albemarle I. July 1891 (Baur coll.). 

 „ fortis. S ad. Charles I. Nov. 1897 (No. 2230). 

 „ (kbilirostris. S (black, bnt bill not). James I. Nov. 1897 



(No. 1352). 

 „ j-xmjyern. i Charles I. Nov. 1897 (No. 2349). 



prosthemelns. c? ad. Charles I. Nov. 1897 (No. 2217). 

 „ fuliginosa. S ad. Jervis I. Aug. 1891 (Baur coll.). 

 „ ' e/i/f'icilis. c? ad. Abingdon I. Aug. 1807 (No. 571). 



pallkhi. ?. Jervis I. Nov. 1897 (No. 1111). 

 „ ,, ?. James I. Aug. 1891 (Baur coll.). 



„ „ cJ ad. James I. Nov. 1891 (No. 1280). 



,, scandens intermeilin. S not ad. G.ardner I. Oct. 1897 (No. 



2112). 

 „ „ „ c? ad. ! Charles I. Nov. 1897 (No. 2365). 



„ acutirostris. cj ad. Tower I. Dec. 1897 (No. 2907). 



Genus D0LIC!H0NYX Swains. 



DaUrhn,,!).,; Swainson in Phil Mag. 1827, p. 4.S5. 



Eastern parts of Nortli America ; in winter over great portions of eastern Sonth 

 America. 



1. Dolichonyx oryzivorus (L.). 



Fringilhi orij~.ii'nrn, Linn.ieus, Synt. Nat. ed. X. p. 179 (1758). 



DoHchtiiiijit oni-iiorus, D.irwin Zool. Beagle, III. Birds, p. lOU ; Salvin in Trrnis. Ziuil. Sac, IX. 

 p. 491 ; Ridgway in Proc. U.S. Nat. J/h.s-. XIX. p. 507. 



The bobolink liad been found by Darwin on James Island. The Harris e.xpedi- 

 tion obtained a yonng mak on Charles and a frmnle on Chatham Island, the former 

 in November, the latter in October and several others were seen. They are, of 

 course, stragglers from North America. 



Genus MYIARC!HUS Cab. 



Mijiarelmx fabania in T.ichudi'a Ftinna Peniiimi, Aves, p. 15'2 (1845). 



Eriliiite«, Ridgway in U.S. Nid. Mks. XVI. p. GOO ; XIX. p. 508. 



Vrsj.nlhui Kaup 1851, Myiuna.,- Cabanis >\i Heine 1850, 0,t;/i-Jioj,f,rii^ Reichenbaoh 1850, Kanpornis 



Bonaparte 1850 are synonyms of .Mii'iitnluoi .-iccording to Sclater, Cut. 13. liril. ilus. XIV. 



p. 240 (1888). 



AVe do not see a necessity to deviate from Dr. Sclater's view of the genus 

 Myiarclius, and if limited according to the latter author wo cannot see how Eribates 



