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bufPy brown, with spots on breast, etc., narrower and rather less dis- 

 tinct; light terminal margins to wiug-coverts broader and more cinna- 

 momeous, especially those on middle coverts; mandible black only on 

 upper basal portion, the rest dark purplish brown; "iris brown." 

 Length (skin), 4.30; wing, 2.05; tail, 1.58; culmen, 0.71; gonys, 0.40; 

 width of mandible at base, 0,30 ; depth of bill at base, 0.3«J ; tarsus, 

 0.82; middle toe, 0.59. 



Yonnf) male. — 2^o. 523, U.S.N.M. ; same collection, etc., August 13. 

 Similar to the immature male (No. 572) described above, but margins 

 of wiug-coverts dull buffy, and bill light colored, the maxilla dark 

 brown basally, paler terminally and on culmen, the mandible pale 

 brownish buffy with a deep brown patch along deflected portion of the 

 tomium. Length (skin), 4.00; wiug, 2.05; tail, 1.05; culmen, 0.70; 

 gonys, 0.40; width of mandible at base, 0.30; depth of bill at base, 

 0.35; tarsus, 0.84; middle toe, 0.05. 



This form, which is peculiar to James Island, is the smallest mem- 

 ber of the subgenus Cuctornis, and has the bill not only distinctly 

 smaller than in any other form but with straighter outlines. There 

 are eight specimens in Dr. Baur's collection, their measurements being 

 as follows: 



Measurements of Geospiza scandens. 



GEOSPIZA INTERMEDIA, Ridgway. 

 (Plate LYII, tiff. 3.) 



Caetornis scandcns (uec Gould), Sundevall, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 124 (part: 

 Charles Islaud).— Salvix, Trans. Zool. Soc. Loud., IX, Pt. ix, 1876, p. 485 

 (part: Charles Island).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XII, 1889, p. 108 

 (part: Charles Island). 



Geospiza intermedia, Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XYII, No. 1007, Nov. 15, 

 1894, p. 361, in text, sub G. assimiUs (Charles Island, Galapagos Archi- 

 pelago; collection U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Specific characters. — Similar to G scandens (Gould), of James Island, 

 but with larger and stouter bill. Culmen, 0.75-0.79; basal de^ith of 



