NO. 1116. 



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Measurements of Camarhynchus affinis. 



CAMARHYNCHUS HABELI, Sclater and Salvin. 



(Plate LVI, tig. 13.) 



Camarhynchus habeli, Sclater aud Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1870, pp. 323, 325, 

 tig. 3 (part: Abiugdou Island, Galapagos Archipelago) ; Noin. Av. Neotr.,1873, 

 p. 29.— Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc, IX, Pt. ix, 1876, p. 490, pi. xxxvi (part = 

 Abiugdou Island).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas.,' XII, 1888, p. 17 (part: 

 Abingdon Island).— Ridgway, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., XII, 1889, p. 110 (Abiug- 

 dou Island). 



Specific characters. — Bill large, very deep (depth at base equal to or 

 greater tlian distance from nostril to tip of maxilla), compressed, with 

 culmen strongly arched and gonydeal angle prominent; culmen (in 

 adult male), 0.60 or more; wing, 2.G0 or more; adult male with head, 

 neck, and chest grayish black. 



Ranf/e. — Galapagos Archipelago: Abingdon Island ( Habel, Albatross). 



Adult male. — No. 116130, U.S.lSr.M.; Abiugdou Island, Galapagos, 

 April 16, 1888. Head, neck, and chest dull grayish black, more or less 

 broken by indistinct grayish olive margins to feathers on pileum, pale 

 grayish buffy broad lateral edges to chest feathers, and slight admix- 

 ture of the same on upper throat; upper parts olive, the feathers of the 

 back with indistinctly darker centers; wings and tail dusky, with olive 

 edgings, those of the middle and greater wing-coverts broader and wood 

 brown in hue; under i^arts, posterior to chest, plain pale buffy or dull 

 cream color, shaded with pale olive on sides and flanks; bill entirely 

 black; legs and feet brownish black. Length (skin), 5.15; wing, 2,75; 

 tail, 1.73; culmen, 0.62; gonys, 0.31; basal width of mandible, 0.32; 

 basal height of bill, 0.42; tarsus, 0.90; middle toe, 0.<)1. 



Adult female. — Gray above, whitish beneath, the head, etc., without 

 any black.^ "Similar to C. psittaculus, but smaller. Total length, 4.4 

 inches; culmen, 0.6; wing, 2.7; tail, 1.5; tarsus, 0.85." (Sharpe.) 



Of this form I have seen only two specimens, both adult males, one 

 of which is described above. The other (No. 116131, same data) does 

 not differ in coloration, but is somewhat smaller, its measurements 

 being as follows: Length (skin), 4,65; wing, 2.68; tail, 1.63; culmen. 



1 Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1870, pp. 323, 325 (translation). 



