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Aihatross)', Chatbaiu Island (Jones, Bam and Adams); Indefatigable 

 Island (Daiwin '?, Ilabel, AllHdro.ss): -lames Island (Ivinbei'ii', Alhdtross, 

 Baui and Adams); Tower Island (IJaur and Adams) ; Bindloe Island 

 (Habel). 



Adult )H((h'.—yo. 110020, TT.S.X.M.; James Island, Galapagos, April 

 11, ISSS; C. II. Townsend. Top of liea<l dull chocolate brown, li.uiiter 

 on forehead, ninch duller on crown, the color changing gradually on 

 occiput and hind lu'ck to warm sepia brown; back brighter brown, the 

 lower portion with large loundish spots of dull blackish; lower back, 

 rump, upper tailcoverts and median tail-featliers plain olive brown, 

 the last with an indication of a snbterminal dusky band; wing cov^erts 

 mainly light brown (intermediate between bro(!coli and wood brown), 

 thickly marked with large roundish and oblong spots of black (crowded 

 into a large patch on the greater coverts) and interspersed with streaks 

 of white (bordering upper and posterior margins of the black spots), 

 the outermost middle and greater coverts with then- outer webs chieHy 

 white, forming an elongated patch of this color; tertials more rusty 

 brown, with a large, postericniy rounded, patch of black on each web; 

 secondaries dusky, very narrowly edged with pale grayish brown and 

 rather broadly tipjx'd with the same; innermost primaries colored like 

 secondaries, but longer quills (except outermost) narrowly edged with 

 white; outer webs of rectrices, except lateral one, chietiy olive brown, 

 both webs of the outermost and inner webs of the others, except middle 

 pair, deep gray, all, except middle pair, crossed by a broad band of 

 black, the broad gray terminal band rather lighter than the basal 

 portion. A broad longitudinal patch of brownish whitish on auricular 

 region (commencing beneath eyes), margined above and below by a 

 streak of black; ' sides of neck richly glossed with bright metallic 

 solfeiino puri)le, changing to golden bronze; chin dull light vinaceous- 

 cinnamon, deeper on throat, and gradually passing into vinaceous-choco- 

 lateou fore neck and chest, the breast rather lighter and slightly more 

 cinnamomeous; belly pale fawn color, passing into pale pinkish bull' on 

 anal region; sides and tlanks plain gray (No. 7), the under wing-coverts 

 and axillars similar but rather deeper (No. gray); under tailcoverts 

 mouse gray, tinged with light brown at tips, the inner webs of the 

 longest feathers with a concealed longitudinal space of dusky. Bill 

 black; legs and feet (in dried skin) dee{) brownish yellow.^ Length 

 (skin), 8.00; wing, 5.40; tail, .">; culmen, 0.04; tarsus, 1; middle toe, 

 0.00. 



Tho head of the specimen descrihod is in rather bad condition, and does not show 

 distinctly tlio exact character of the markings. In examjiU's not thns defective, the 

 n])perm()st black strealc passes underneath thti bare orbital space to the anterior 

 angle of tlie same, where it meets another bnt narrower black line which borders 

 the nj)per margin of the bare orbital space for its whole length, rnnuing into the 

 anricnlar stripe at the posterior angle of the orbital s])ace. 



■" Hare skin ronnd eye cobalt blue, tending toward ]iur])lish ; feet and legs a little 

 darker than coral red." (Adams, MS.) Iris dark brown (ilabel;. 



