NO. nifi. 



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Measurements of Geospiza intermedia. 



GEOSPIZA ASSIMILIS (Gould). 



Cactornis assimilis, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, Ft. r, 1837, p. 7 (Galapagos Islands) ; 

 Zool. Voy. Beagle, III, Birds, 1841 , p. 105, pi. XLiii. — Boxaparte, Consp. Av., 

 1, 1850, p. 512.— Gray, Haud-1., II, 1870, p. 323.— Sclater and Salvin, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc, 1870, p. 323 (Bindloe Island); Nona. Av. Neotr., 1873, p. 29.— Sal- 

 vin, Trans. Zool. Soc, IX, Pt. ix, 1876, p. 486 (Bindloe Island). — Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XII, 1888, p. 18 (Bindloe Island). 



Specific characters. — Adult male iiiiknowii/ but irainature male and 

 adult female apparently differing from those of G. scandens in larger 

 size. 



Range. — Galapagos Areliipelago : ? James Island (Baiir and Adams) ; 

 Bindloe Island (Habel, tide Salvin). 



Immature male. — " General color above blackish, slightly varied with 

 ashy olive margins to the feathers, especially on the lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts; lesser wing-coverts like the back; median and 

 greater coverts blackish, with sandy margins to the feathers; bastard 

 wing, primary coverts, and quills blackish, narrowly edged with ashy 

 olive, the primaries margined with hoary gray; tail feathers blackish 

 brown, edged with paler brown externally, and with sandy brown near 

 the tips of the inner webs; head and neck rather browner than the 

 back, the sides of the face,' ear-coverts, throat, and breast blackish 

 brown, the latter slightly mottled with sandy brown edges; center of 

 abdomen buffy whitish, strongly mottled Avith blackish brown centers 

 to the feathers ; sides of body, flanks, and thighs blackish brown, washed 

 with ashy brown ; under tail coverts blackish brown, conspicuously 

 edged with buffy whitish; under wing-coverts and axillaries blackish 



■Dr. Sharpe describes what he calls the adult male, but the specimen which he 

 describes (the type) is evidently an imuiature bird. His description is quoted under 

 the heading ''Immature male," 



