NO. 1116. 



PEOCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



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Measurements of Mimus personatus. 



NESOMIMUS MELANOTIS (Gould). 



(Plate LVI, fig. 2.) 



Orpheus melanotis,GovhD, Proc. Z(jol. fSoc, 1837, p. 27 ( no locality ; coll. J. Gonld). 



Minnismelaiiotis, (Jould, Zool. Voy. Beagle, III, Birds, 1841, p. (52, pi. xvii ("Chat- 

 bam and James islands," Galapagos Archipelago). — Sclatkr, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc, 185t>, p. 34.5. — SCLATER and Salv'IN, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1870, p. 323 (part: 

 James and Indefatlgalile islands) ; Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, p. 3. — Sundevall, 

 Proc. Zo(d. Soc, 1871, pp. 124, 126 (part: Charles, James, and Indefatigable 

 islands).— Sai.vin, Trans. Zool. Soc, IX, Pt. ix, 1876, p 471 (Charles, James, 

 and Indefatigable islands).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., VI, 1881, p. 349. 



Nesonihnus melauotis (part), Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XII, 1890, p. 102 

 (James and Indefatigable islands). 



Specific characters. — ISiiiiilar to N. personatu.s, Kidgway, of Abing- 

 don Island, but much smaller, tlie bill especially; colors paler, with 

 the flanks less strongly tinged with brown. 



Raruje. — Galapagos Archipelago: VI Charles Island (Kinberg); Inde- 

 fatigable Island (Habel, Kinberg, Albatro-ss, Baur and Adams); Jervis 

 Island (Baur and Adams); James Island (Darwin, Kinberg, Townsend, 

 Baur and Adams). 



Adult female.'— :So. llo9')(), IT.S.N.M.; James Island, April 11, 1888; 

 C. H. Townsend. Entire ])ileum sooty blackish, the feathers narrowly 

 margined with brownish gray, producing a scaled iii)pearauce; hind 

 neck light brownish gray — almost grayish white, longitudinally spot- 

 ted with sooty black, producing a consi)icuous collar; back and scap- 

 ulars sooty blackish, the feathers indistinctly margined with dull 

 brownish gray; lower back and rump light bufly brownish, almost uni 

 form; upper tail-coverts brownish gray. Wings dusky black; lesser 

 coverts broadly margined with brownish gray; middle coverts broadly 



' There is no adult male in good plumage available for description. 



