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Having carefully compared a series of twenty adult flamingoes from 

 tlie Galapagos with a still larger luimber from the Bahamas, I am 

 unable to apprecu^te any difference between them except the slightly 

 smaller average size and distinctly paler coloration of the former. 

 Eegarding the obvious color diiterences, however, it should be noted 

 thai: the Bahama series is a selected lot from a much larger nnml)er of 



ASCERTAINED KANGE OF THE (iENUS PIKT.NICOPTERUS, LINN^US, IN TJIE GALAPA- 

 GOS ARCHIPELAGO. 



1. Phrcnicopierus ruber (LinnsPtis). 



exceptionallv fine skins, and I feel very doubtful whether, if they were 



compared with a similar series of Galapagos specimens, any diflerence 



could be detected. Certain it is that while the brightest colored adult 



male from the ( Jahipagos is decidedly less intensely colored than the 



majority of those from the Bahamas, specimens occur among the latter 



which are quite as pale as any of the Galapagos lot. 



The brightest colored Galapagos male nniy be described as follows: 



No. 125851, U.S.N.M.; Charles Island, Galapagos, July 2,1891; Messrs. 



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