( ItiS ) 



Those from Albemarle : culmen, 19-2 — 21 mm.; wiiig, 73 — 75 mm. 



Those from Jervis : culmen, 19 — 20 mm.; wing about 73 mm. 



Neither among those from Chatham nor among those from Duncan do we 

 have any black adult imdeg, but the measurements of our series from both these 

 islands agree fully with birds in the same plumage, apparent age and sex from the 

 other islands. 



Our males from Harrington Island measure: culmen, 20 — 21 mm.; wing, 

 72 — 75 mm. The shape of the bills of the type specimen and of some of our other 

 specimens certainly look somewhat different, as they are plumper at the tip, but 

 other specimens again are quite like those from the otTier islands. 



24. Geospiza scandens abingdoni (Scl. & Salv.). 



Cactoniis abingdoni, Sclater & Salvin in Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1870, pp. 323, 326 ; Salvin in Trann. 



Zool. Soc. Loud. IX. p. 480 (1876) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mas. XII. p. 20. 

 Geospiza abingdoni, Ridgway in Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XIX. p. 540. 

 Cactornis assimilis, Salvin, t.cj, p. 486, and Sharpe, t.c, p. 18 (partim ; Bindloe, non Gould!). 



The birds from Abingdon and Biudloe are no doubt the same, and it was a 

 mistake to identify the Bindloe birds with Gould's Cactornis assimilis, as Darwin 

 never set his foot on Bindloe Island. (See remarks under G. scandens intermedia.') 



G. scandens abingdoni is still larger than G. scandens fatigata, the bill is 

 deeper, higher at base. We have, however, only a very poor series, and no perfectly 

 adult males. 



25. Geospiza scandens septentrionalis subsp. nov. 



This new subspecies occurs on AVeiiman and Culpepper Islands. It has a Very 

 much smaller bill than any of the other forms of G. scandens, and is evidently a 

 somewhat darker or rather more brownish bird, the young individuals and females 

 being darker and more brownish, the wing-coverts of the females being broadly 

 bordered with brownish cinnamon, not whitish. The young inales have the borders 

 to the upper wing-coverts much narrower than adult fcnudes. We have a good 

 number of black males, but none with quite black beaks. 



The culmina measure from 14o to IG'5 mm., the wings 70 to 75'5, tails about 

 50, tarsus 21. 



Our specimens from Wenmau cannot be separated from those from Culpepper. 

 (Type No. 311, Harris coll., Wenman Island, August 4th, l!?97 ; eyes brown, bill 

 horn-colour, tarsi and feet blackish.) 



26. Geospiza pallida (Scl. & Salv.) 



Oictornis paUidii, Sclater & Salvin in Pmc Znnl, iyoc. Loud. 1870, pp. 323, 327 ; Salvin in Trans. 



Zool. Soc. Lond. IX. p. 487 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Miis. XII. p. 20. 

 OimarhytichuspaWdwi, Ridgway in Proc, U.S. Nat. Man. XIX. p. 5G5. 

 Cactornis hi/pokitw, Ridgway in Proc. U.S. Nat. Mas. XII. p. 109 (1890). 

 Camarhijnclmis productue, Ridgway in Proc. U.S. Nat. Mas. XVII. p. 364 ,-• Ridgway, op. cit. 



XIX. p. 566. 



This is one of the most distinct species of the genus Geospiza. AVith the 

 scanty material at the disposal of Sclater, Salvin, and Sharpe, the genera Geospiza, 

 ('(irfornis, and t'amarhynchas seemed well enough defined ; and if they were, there 

 would be no doubt that G. pallida belonged structurally to Cactornis, but not at 

 all to Camarkynckus, where Ridgway placed it ou account of its coloration. In 



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