552 lunns of the galapagos archipelago— ridgwat. vol.xix. 



(Sharpe.) (It may be remarked tliat Dr, Sbarpe does not think it worth 

 while to (juestion the locahty, Charles Ishmd being given without an 

 interrogation mark ! ) 



By comparing the above descriptions with one another it will easily 

 be seen that they difler widely in essential points. In fact, it is diffi- 

 cult to believe that they were not taken from throe different birds! 



I have a suspicion that this bird may be the same as the form which 

 I have treated in this paper under the title of C. variegatus, Sclater 

 and Salvm, which certainly occurs on Charles Island. Should this 

 surmise i)rove correct, and no error of identification have been made, 

 C. variegatus will become a synonym of C. crassirostris. 



CAMARHYNCHUS PSITTACULUS, Gould. 



(Plate LVI, figs. 14-16.) 



Camarhynchus psittacula, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, Pt. \, 1837, p. 6 (Galapagos 



Islands). 

 Camarhynclius psitlacuhis, Darwin, Zool. Toy. Beagle, III, Birds, 1841. p. 103, 



pi. XL (James Island). — Sclater and Salvix, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1870, p. 323 



(Indefatigable Island]; Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, p. 29. — Salvin, Trans. Zool. 



Soc, IX, Pt. IX, 1876, p. 488 (James and Indefatigable islands).-- Shakpe, 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mns , XII, 1888, p. 16 (James and Indefatigable islands). — 



RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns., XII, 1890, p. 109 (James and Indefatigable 



islands). 

 ? Camarhynchus townsendi, Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns., XII, No. 767, Feb. 5, 



1890, p. 110 (Charles Island, Galapagos Archipelago; collection U. S. Nat. 



Mns.). 

 ? Caviarhynchus rostratus, Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVII, No. 1007, Nov. 



15, 1894, p. 363 (James Island; collection U. S. Nat. Mns.). 



Specific characters. — IJill short and stout, its basal depth much 

 exceeding the length of the maxilla from the nostril, and the basal 

 width of the mandible decidedly greater than the length of the gonys. 

 Wing, 2.()5-3; culmen (from extreme base), 0.55-0.61; width of mandi- 

 ble at base, 0.43-0.47; depth of bill at base, 0.43-0.47. 



Range. — Galapagos Archii»elago : ? Charles Island {Albatross) ; Inde- 

 fatigable Island (Habel, Albatross); Jervis Island (Baur and Adams); 

 .James Island (Darwin, Albatross, Baur and Adams). 



Aihdt wa/e.— No. 11600G, U.S.N.M.; James I.sland, April 11; C. H. 

 Townsend.' Head, neck, and chest dull black, passing into dusky 

 sooty brown on forehead; rest of upper parts dull grayish olive, much 

 lighter on rump and upper tail-coverts; lower parts from breast back- 

 ward dull white, tinged with buff' j)()sterior]y, especially on under tail- 

 coverts; breast, particularly on sides, indistinctly but rather broadly 

 streaked with dusky. Bill black, brownish on gonys; tarsi deep horn 

 brown; toes dusky. Length (skin), 5.30; wing, 3; tail, l.S(>; culnieu, 

 0.0-, very strongly arched; depth of bill at base, 0.48, from base of 



'Type of (.'. rostialus, Kidgway. 



