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Adult female. — Ko. 116021, U.S.N.M. ; same data. Similar to the adult 

 male, as described, but smaller and rather duller colored; the metallic 

 gloss on sides of neck less brilliant and much restricted; the black 

 spots on wing coverts rather more crowded; top of head less i)ur- 

 plisli brown, and under parts more cinnamomeous, especially on 

 belly. Length (skin), 7.80; wing, 4.i»0; tail, L'.OL'; cuhnen, 0.00; tarsus, 

 0.88; middle toe, 0.S4. 



Young. — No. 52410, U.S.N.IM.; James Island, Galapagos; received 

 from Professor Sundevall. Much duller in coh)r than adults, with 

 markings and colors far less strongly contrasted ; spots on wing-coverts 

 and scapulars dark sooty brown, intermixed with smaller spots of light 

 cinnamon; prevailing color of under parts deep wood brown, darker on 

 chest, where the feathers have i^aler terminal margins; the head and 

 neck duller brown, indistinctly sjiotted above, especially on occiput, 

 with dull cinnamon, the sides of the ueck without trace of metallic 

 gloss: remiges cou.spicuously margined with light rusty, and general 

 color of rectrices deep broccoli brown or drab instead of gray. 



Tliere are some slight variations in plumage noticeable between 

 specimens from different islands, which may or may not be of local sig- 

 niticance, the series of specimens being too small to determine the ques- 

 tion. Examples from Chatham Island are, as may be seen from the 

 subjoined measurements, decidedly smaller than those from other locali- 

 ties, but having only one skin for examination, and that a very poor 

 one (those belonging to Dr. Baur having been returned to him), I am 

 unable to state whether there are any other differences. 



Measurements of Nesopelia galapagoensis. 



