NO. 1116. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



491 



Measurements of Nesomimus melanotis. 



I 



NESOMIMUS PARVULUS (Gould). 



(Plate LVI, fig. 1.) 



Orpheus parrulus, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1837, p. 27 (no locality ; coll. J. Gonld). 



Miinus parvidus, Gr.\y, Zool. Voy. Keagle, III, Birds, 1841, p. (53, pi. xviii (Albe- 

 marle Island, Galapagos Ari'bipelago). — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., I, 1850, p. 

 277. — ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1859, p. 345. — Suxdevai.l, Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 1871, p. 127.— ScLATER and Sat.vin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, p. 3. — Salvin, 

 Traus. Zool. Soc, IX, Pt. ix, 1876, p. 472.— Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, 

 p. 65; Cat. Birds Brit.Mus., VI, 1881, p. 3.50. 



Nesomimus parintlus, Eidgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XII, 1890, p. 104. 



Specific characters. — Similar to iV. melanotis (Gould), but cousiderably 

 smaller, bill less curved, sides of head less dark, and general coloration 

 of upper parts paler; in worn breeding ijlumage a distinct brownish 

 gray shade across the upper breast, not noticeable in X. melanotis. 



Range. — Galapagos Archipelago : Albemarle Island (Darwin, Town- 

 send, Baur and Adams). 



Adult.^ — "The vertex, the nape of the neck, and the tail intensely 

 black, with the tips of the tail-feathers marked with white; the wings 

 brown with the secondaries and coverts tipped with white marks, 

 giving the appearance of two transverse bands; the lores and the 

 featliers of the ears black; the throat, the sides of the neck, breast, 

 and the abdomen white; the flanks marked longitudinally with brown.'" 



Six adult examples in fresh plumage in Messrs. Baur and Adams' 

 collection (4 from Albemarle, 2 from East Albemarle) show that the 

 supposed more grayish breast of N. imrvulus^ to which I have called 

 attention,^ is a character which can not be relied on in all conditions of 



'In the absence of any adult specimen in good plumage, I am obliged to quote 

 Gould's description. Dr. Baur's collection contained six examples in fresb plumage, 

 but they were returned without a description having been taken. 



2Gould, Zool. Voy. Beagle, III, Birds, p. 63. 



sProc U. S. Nat. Mus., XII, pp. 102, 103. 



