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wliite on rectrices more extended. Wing, 3.85-4.20; tail, 3.50-3.90; 



exposed culnien, 0.83-0.91; bill from rictns, 1.15-1.20; tarsns, 1.32-1.39; 



middle toe, 0.75-0.81. (Tyi)e in Dr. Banr's collection.) 



Range. — Galapagos Archipelago: Bindloe Island (Baur and Adams.) 

 Five specimens, all separable from N. hauri by the above-mentioned 



characters. 



Family M^IOTILTIDJE. 



Genus DENDROICA, Gray. 



Dendroica, Gray, List Gen. B. Ajip., Ill, 1^42, p. 8. Type, Motaeilla coronata, Liu- 

 u;ens. 



Eange. — Xorth and Middle America, and extreme northern i)art of 

 Sonth America; Galapagos xVrchipelago (one species only, closely 

 related to West Indian forms). 



According to Dr. Banr, the Galapagoan species, I), aureola (Gould), 

 occurs on all the islands of the group. 



DENDROICA AUREOLA (Gould). 



Siilvicola aureola, Gould, ZooL Voy. Beagle, III, Birds, 1841, p. 86, pi. xxviii 

 (Galapagos Archipelago). — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., 1,1850, p. 309. 



Dendroica aureola, Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p 192. — Baird, 

 Review, I, 1864, p. 194. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. X. Amer. 

 Birds, I, 1874, p. 217.— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XII, 1889, pj). 105, 119, 

 121-126 (Indefatigable, Charles, James, and Chatham islands).— Townsend, 

 Bull. Mas. Comp. Zool., XXVII, No. 3, 1895, p. 122 (Cocos Island). 



Dendnn'ca aureola, Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 323 (Indefatigable, 

 Bindloe, and Abingdon islands) ; Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, p. 9. — Salvin, Trans. 

 Zool. Soc, IX, Pt. IX, 1876, p. 473 (Indefatigable, Bindloe, and Abingdon 

 islands) ; Proc. Zool. See, 1883, p. 420 (Charles Island;.— Sharpe, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc, 1877, p. 66 (Charles Island) ; Cat. Birds Brit. Mas., X, 1885, p. 282 (Inde- 

 fatigable, Charles, and Abingdon islands; Gorgona Island, Panama Bay; 

 Ecuador; Peru). — Taczanowski, Orn. du Pt5rou, I, 1884, p. 467 (Sta. Lucia 

 and Tiimbez, w. Peru). 



Bendroiea pclechia, L., var., Sundevall, I'roc Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 124 (Chatham, 

 Charles, and James islands). 



Specific characters. — Very similar t(» 1>. petechia (Linmeus), but adult 

 male with ]>ileum more extensively and intensely orange-rufous. In 

 other stages not with certainty distinguishable from 7>. petecliia ( ?). 



Range. — Galapagos Archipelago: Albemarle Island (Ilabel, Baur and 

 Adams); Duncan Island (Baur and Adams); Charles Island (Darwin ?, 

 Kinberg, Cookson, Albatrosa); Hood Island (Habel, Baur and Adams); 

 Chatham Island (Darwin !, Kinberg, Jones, Albatross, Baur and 

 Adams); Barrington Island (Baur and Adams); Indefatigable Island, 

 (Habel, Alhatrossy Baur and Adams) ; Jervis Island (Baur and Adams) ; 

 James Island (Darwin %^i\ibevgj Albatross, Baur and Adams); Tower 

 Island (Baur and Adams); Bindloe Island (Darwin '?, Ilabel); Abingdon 

 Island (Habel). Cocos Island (Towuseudj. Gorgona Island, Bay of 



