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 Genus NUMENIUS Bnss. 



Nunmiiiis Brisson, Orii. VI. p. 311 (1760). 



Cosmopolitan dnriug migration ; Arctic and temperate regions of Northern 

 Hemisphere cluriug breeding time. 



Numenius hudsonicus Lath. 



NiimeNiiis hudsnnicus, Latham, hiil. llni. II. p. 1\1 (179(1); Salvin in Tranx, Zonl. Sue, Lniiil. IX. 



p. 504 ; Ridgwayin Pmc U.S. Nnt. Mun. XIX. p. 633 ; Sharpe, Oit. B. Brit. .IA»s. XXIV. 



p. 364. 

 Numenitts borealis, Salriu in Proc. Zoo!. Sac. 1883, p. 429. 



This bird breeds iu the Arctic and snb-Arctic regions of North America ; in 

 winter over the greater portions of South America. We have specimens from 

 Charles, Chatham, Albemarle and Indefatigable Islands. 



Salvin (I.e.) mentions also a siaecimen of A', borealis, as being shot on Charles 

 Island by Captain A. H. Markham. This was evidently done by a pen-slip, for the 

 specimen is N. hudsonicus. (Cf. Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mu.^. Vol. XXIV. p. 367, 

 specimen d'.) 



Genus HIMANTOPUS Briss. 



IJimaiiUipus, Brisson, Oi-n. VI. p. ?,?> (1760). 



Hot and temperate regions round the world. 



1. Himantopus mexicanus (P. L. S. Miill.) 



CImraih-iiis me.rimiiux, P. L. S. Milller, Sijal. Nat. Aiilmii(/,p. 117 (1776). 



HiiMuilupus me.ricdims, Ridgway in Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XIX. p. 633 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. .Viis. 



XXIV. p. 320. 

 ff. mgricoUis, Salvin in Trans. Znol. Soc. Luml. IX. p. 502. 



AVe do not notice any differences between our Galapagos skins and those from 

 other parts of America. We have specimens from Indefatigable, Albemarle, and 

 Chatham Islands ; IJidgway mentions also James Island. This species inhabits 

 temperate North America, southward to Brazil and La Plata. 



Genus LARUS L. 



Lrirus, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, I. p. 136 (1758). 



Cosmopolitan. 



1. Larus fuliginosus Gonld. 



Luriixfiitlijbmsux, Gould in Vny. Benglr, III. Birds, p. 141 (1841) ; Salvin in Tnuis. ZooJ. Snc. IX. 

 p. 505, PI, LXXXVII ; Saunders, Cat. B. Brit. .!/«». XXV. p. 222 ; Ridgway in Proc. U.S. 

 Nat. .U„s. XIX. p. 635. 



This dark-coloured gull is apparently confined to the (ialajiagos group. It is 

 now known to inhabit Abingdon, Bindloe, James, Indefatigable, Barrington, 

 C!hatham, Charles, Albemarle, Jervis, Tower, and Hood Islands. One fresh egg 

 was picked up on November luth on Albemarle Island. It is very pale dirty 

 greenish, with liver-brown spots and patches, and underlying purplish mauve spots, 

 and measures 61 bv 43 mm. 



