( .-597 ) 



S w\. GiiriiiiLT ]5iu-, Hood Island, Ifi. xi. I'.MJU (Gret'U coll.; : cnliu 14, bill fioiu 

 nostril to tij) !)-.:i, depth iit base In, width at base 8-5, wing OS mm. 



c? ad. Daphne, off Indefatigable Island, ,5. iii. lOOI (No. 533 Beck coll.j : 

 culm. 1.5, bill from nostril to tip 10, depth at base lo, width at liase 8, wing 68-5, 

 tail 41, tarsns 10 mm. 



S ad. Daphne, off Indefatigable, (i. iii. ]<.mi1 (No. .506 Beck coll.j : cnlm. 1475, 

 bill from nostril to tip 10, depth at base lo, width at base 9, wing 70 mm. 



Geospiza difficilis iSharpc. 



Ni.v. ZdoL. VI, 1800, p. li;.S.— Ridgw,, Birds Xnrlh ,f- MiiMIe Ainfi: I, 1001, p. 507. 



Mr. Beck collected specimens on Abingdon Island, where he found it not very 

 plentiful near (Jape Chalmers. A nest was found on April 15th, bnt the eggs were 

 so heavily incubated that they could not be saved. The uest was similar to those of 

 Geospiza forth fratercidii , and so were the eggs. 



Geospiza debilirostris Ridgw. 



Nov. ZcMii.. VI, 1800, p. 163. --Ridgw,, B'nih Xurlh •(■ Middle Amei: I, 1901, p. 508. 



James Island only. No remarks to add. 



Geospiza scandens scandens (Gould). 



Nov. ZuoL. VI, 1809, p. 16-t.— Ridgw., Birds North d- Middle Amer. I, 1001, p. 509. 



Still only known from James Island. i fere ad., February 14th, lltOl, 

 K. H. Beck c'oll. 



Mr. Ridgway {t.r. p. 513, footnote No. 4) calls attention to an unusually large 

 young male m the Baur collection, which he described under (i. assimilis in 1896. 

 This specimen is certainly, as Mr. Ridgway says, larger than all the other specimens 

 of scandens from James Island in the Baur collection. Nevertheless we feel certain 

 that it is only a large specimen of scundeus, because we have others intermediate 

 between our smallest scandens and this sjiecimen. The strongly curved culmen is 

 only individual, as we find the same differences in other forms of the scandens 

 group. 



(J jiiv. No. 527, 13. viii. IfSUl : culm. 20 (certainly not 2i)-32, as measured by 

 Mr. Ridgway), nostril to tip 15, de|ith at base 11, widtli at base '.). 



S ad. No. 50(1, Baur coll., 17. viii. l8'.)l: cnlm. I'-l, nostril to tip 12'5, depth at 

 base O'o, width at base 7. 



c? juv. Baur coll. {ex spir. v/n.): culm. I'-i, nostril to tij) 13'5, depth at base 9, 

 width at base 8. 



? Baur coll. (ej: spir. rin.): culm. l8"5, nostril to tip 13'5, depth at base 0'5, 

 width at base 7'5. 



c? juv. Baur coll. {ex- spir. rin.) : culm. 17'5, nostril lotip 13, dejith at base 9'5, 

 width at base 7. 



S fere ad., Beck coll.. No. 300: cnlm. 18-5, nostril to tip 13'5, depth at base 10, 

 width at base 8'3. 



The colouration of No. 527 is in no way unusual, being that of an immature 

 male, namely, being intermediate between that of adult (black) males and females. 

 It is of course very different from the tirst plumage of young birds of both sexes. 



