556 BIRDS OF THE GA LAP A OS ARCHIPELA G 0—BIDG WA Y. vol. xix. 



0.62; gouys, 0.32; basal width of inaudible, O.-'U ; basal deptli of bill, 

 0.42; tarsus, 0.89; middle toe, 0.58. 



CAMARHYNCHUS BIN'DLOEI, Ridgway. 



Camarhynclius haheli (part), Sclater aud Salvin, Proc, Zool. Soc, 1870, pp.323. 



825 (Bindloo Island).— Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc, IX, Pt. ix, 187(5, p. 490 



(Bindloo Island).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas., XII, 1888, p. 17 (Biudloe 



Island). 

 Caviarhiinchus hhuUoei, Ridgway, Proc U. S. Nat. Mns. XVIII, \o. 1087, A])ril 



23, 189G, p. 294 (Bindloe Island, (ialapagos Anliipelago; collection of Dr. 



G. Baur). 



Specific characters. — Similar to C. haheli, Sclater and Salvin, of 

 Abingdon Island, but ratlier larger, with decidedly larger bill, the 

 latter with culmen much less compressed. 



Range. — Galapagos Archipelago: Biudloe Island (Habel; Baur and 

 Adams). 



Adult male. — Type, in collection of Dr. G. Baur; Bindloe Island, Gala- 

 pagos, September 5, 1891. Head, neck, and upper chest uniform dull 

 black, the feathers of the occiput and hind neck with obsolete margins 

 of grayish olive, and those of the throat and chest indistinctly fringed 

 with a paler tint of the same; rest of upper parts plaiu olive, becoming 

 lighter and tinged with buflfy on the rump; wings and tail grayish 

 dusky, the feathers margined with grayish olive (lighter and more bufty 

 on primaries), the wing coverts with Inroad margins of deep olivegray- 

 isb, instead of butfy brown or wood brown, as in C. habcli; lower chest 

 with feathers blackish centrally broadly margined with pale butt-yellow- 

 ish, producing a spotted or somewhat squamate appearance; rest of 

 under parts pale butt-yellowish, washed with butty olive ou sides aud 

 flanks, the crissum more butty; under wing-coverts mainly white, deep- 

 ening into light olive-grayish along edge of wing, this becoming darker 

 and forming a rather distinct ])at(th on the carpometacarpal region. 

 Maxilla deep brown, obsoletely streaked with blackish, the terminal 

 portion also chiefly blackish; mandible clouded with lighter brown and 

 dusky, the latter chiefly on lower basal portion; legs and feet blackish 

 brown. Length (skin), 4.50; wing,2.92; tail, 1.82; culmen, 0.08; gonys, 

 0.31; width of mandible at base, 0,33; depth of biU at base, 0.45; 

 tarsus, 0,85 ; middle toe, O.GO. 



Immature male. — Same collection, locality, etc. Similar to the adult 

 female of Cpsittaculus, but bill longer and relatively narrower. Above 

 light olive, the feathers of the pileum with rather distinct darker mesial 

 streaks and those of the back with broader and much less distinct 

 streaks, the general color becoming lighter and more butty on the 

 rump; wings ami tail dusky olive-grayish, the feathers margined with 

 paler, tliese margins broader and more butty on wing-coverts, those on 

 the middle coverts chiefly terminal, producing a rather broad and dis- 

 tinct baud. Face and under ijarts pale butt' yellowish, faintly shaded 



