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Tlie Myiarcliiis were the most iiKjuisitive and fearless of all birds on the 

 Galaiiagos Islands. One alighted within a foot of the camera while Mr. Beck was 

 photographing a nest. Nearly all that were taken on the islands were knocked over 

 with the gun-barrels. 



Pyrocephalus nanus (ionld. 



Nov. ZcK.i.. VI, 1809, p. 17-2. 



Mr. Green sent a few skins from Harrington Island and a series from 

 Albemarle. Jlr. Beck sent the following notes : 



" Pijrocephahisi nriiius was in full song on Duncan, February 'ZH, on Inde- 

 fatigable in February, and on Abingdon April 15. There must have been nests, 

 but none was found. A few were noticed at Tagus Cove ; but at Cajie Berkeley, 

 also on Albemarle Island, none were seen, though the conditions were evidently 

 favourable." 



Pyrocephalus dubius <toHld. 



Bull. B. 0. Club VIII, p. 00 (June IS'.lO).— Nov. Zool. VI, 189;», p. 173.— Rothsch., Bull. B. 0. 

 Club XII, p. 47 (February 1902). 



Messrs. Beck and Green sent some skins from Chatham, the only island on 

 which this smaller species occurs. In the middle of March Mr. Beck found it 

 nesting, and obtained some young in the first plumage. Tliey differ from adults in 

 having the breast streaked with blackish brown. The wing-coverts and feathers of 

 the whole u])perside edged with rusty buff, these edges being widest on the rump. 

 Eectrices ti])ped with brownish butf. 



Nest No. 760, Chatham, 14. iii. 1901. Parents shot. Nest situated at the 

 end of a lichen-covered limb of a tree, 12 ft. from the ground. It is a flat structure, 

 composed of orchilla moss, a few dry twigs and lichen, and lined with fine moss and 

 feathers. The cup measures about 4 cm. across, and is not more than 2 to 2| cm. 

 deep. It contained two fresh eggs. They are glossless, of a pale cream-colour, 

 with deep brown and deeper-lying pale purplish grey spots, which form a ring above 

 the middle portion of the eggs. They measure 17"2 x 13 and IT'S x 13-6 mm. (E. 

 Adams coll.) 



No. 769, Chatham, 15. iii. 1901. Parents (Nos. TOO and 684) shot. The 

 nest stood in the fork of a lichen-covered limb, near the end, about 14 ft. above the 

 ground. It is principally composed of orchilla moss with a few pieces of grass and 

 weed stems. Lined with fine orchilla moss. " This female seemed to regard her 

 duties lightly, as she stood np in her nest, shook herself, and scratched her back 

 with the bill before she flew off." The nest contained two slightly incubated eggs. 

 They are of a richer cream-colour than the other two, and tiie spots are darker and 

 many are confluent, so that they form a very consjiicuous ring round the eggs. They 

 measure llrb x 13'4 and 16-7 x 132 mm. 



Coccyzus melacoryphus Nicill. 



Nov. ZociL. VI, 1899, p. 174. 



Mr. Green collected a pair at Villa Blil, Albemarle Island, January 2iid, 19(il. 

 " Eyes brown." 



Mr. Beck writes : " This cuckoo was frequently heard on Chatham Island, and 



