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adiiiit the birds. There is no jiroper nest, only a few pieces of grass or straw being 

 placed nnder the eggs. Two eggs from two difi'erent nests from Daphne Island are 

 white with a slight gloss, and measnre 27'o x 21 and 20'.S x 21-4 mm. 



Creciscus sharpei Hothsch. & Hart. 



Niiv. ZuDi.. VI, 1899, p. 185 (Indefatigable Island only). 



Beck's party found these rails again in the same swamp where they were 

 obtained in 1897. They ran abont within a few feet of IJeck while he was squeezed 

 in the mangroves. They seemed to jirefor soft, swampy spots, where tiie tender 

 mangrove spronts were eoming up through the mud. lu spite of a close search, 

 none were found at Mangrove Point, Narborough Island, where the collectors from 

 the Stanford- Ley land University obtained a pair in ISiiiO. These specimens were 

 kindly sent for our insjioction, and did not differ from our C s/ku-jji'/. The swamp 

 on Karbiirough is much more limited and less densely overgrown with mangroves 

 than that on Indefatigable Island. 



Gallinula galeata (Licht.). 



Nov. ZooL. VI, 1899, p. 186. 



Green obtained two adult males at the S.E. end of Albemarle Island. These 

 specimens, like the adult tnale obtained there by Beck in 1807, have very large, 

 wide and swollen frontal shields, exceeding most of those of eighteen specimens 

 from other localities. AVidth of frontal shields ]3*5, lii, 10 mm. ; end of shield 

 to tip of liill 46-5, 5(1, 51 mm. There is no constant ditlVrenee in eolouratinn or 

 otherwise, and as continental specimens vary much in their dimensions, it is desirable 

 to compare a larger series. 



Haematopus galapagensis Ridgw. 

 Nov. ZooL. VI, 1899, p. 18G. 



A young bird in tirst plumage and partly still in tlown was taken on Intlefatigable 

 Island on February 18th, 1901. The down on the back seems to have been all black 

 with white tips, that of the abdomen white, of the throat dull slaty black. The 

 feathers of the ujiper surface are black with rnfous tips. It was also collected 

 in Albemarle and seen at Seymour. 



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

 Nov. Zooi,. VI, 1899, p. 189. 



Mr. Beck says they were common on Indefatigable on the ponds with the teal. 

 They were paired, and probably breeding. 



Xema furcata (N6boux). 



Nov. Zo.i].. VI, 1899, p. 190. 



A yonn^ bird was killed by Mr. Green on Wenman Island on July 4th, 1900. 

 Its head and neck are white ; in front of the eye is a wide black semicircle ; the 

 underside is white ; the upper surface siiotted with large subterminal dull brownish 

 black patches. 



Mr. Beck found it very common on Daphne Island, where it was ])re]iariiig 

 ibr nesting Ijy the end of March. It was not seen along the beach, but always 

 on the ditfs and rough rocky coast. A few were seen at Guy Fawkes and 

 Albemarle Islands. The usual site for the nest is on a ledge or clilf near or 



