548 BIRDS OF THE GALAPAGOS ARCHIPELAGO— BIDGWAY. volxix. 



c. Subgenus CACTOSPIZA, Eidgway. 



1. Camitrltipicluis pallidiis (Scl:itt;r aud tSalviu). 



2. Cnmari/iK'hits prodiictiis, Ridgway. 



CAMARHYNCHUS VARIEGATUS, Sclater and Salvin. 

 (Plate LVI, lig. IT.) 



Camarhynchus rarieyatus, Scla tkr and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1870, pp. 323, 324, 

 fig. 2 C'Abiugdon aud Bindloes islauds," Galapagos Archipelago); Nom. 

 Av, Neotr., 1873, p. 29— Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond , IX, Pt. i.\, 1876, 

 p. 489, pi. Lxxxv— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.,XII, 1888, p. 15. 



CamarhynchuH ciafisiyostris (uec Gould?), Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XII, 

 1889, p. 110 (Charles, Chatham, aud Indefatigable islands). 



Specific chantcters. — Culinen strongly coiive.x and maxillaiy toniiuni 

 strongly deflected from beneatli the nostril to the rictus; gonys 

 straight, strongly ascending terniinally, forming a decided angle with 

 the lower edge of the mandibular rami: mandible very broad at the 

 base, where its width greatl}' exceeds the length of the gonys. AVing, 

 3.11-3.451 tarsus, 1.05-1.15. 



