NO, 1116. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



621 



GALLINULA GALEATA (Lichtenstein). 

 Crex galeata, Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, p. 80. 

 Galliimla galeata, Bonaparte, Amer. Oru., IV, 1832. p. 128.— Bairp, Brewkr, and 



EiDGWAY, Water Birds X. Amer., I, 1884, 388.— Ridgway, Mau. N. Amer. 



Birds, 1887, p. 141. 



Range.— Whole of tropical and most of teiuperate portions of Amer- 

 ica. Galapagos Archipelago: Albemarle Island (Baur and Adams). 



There are three adult specimens of what I refer provisionally to this 

 species in Dr. Baur's collection from Albemarle. These diifer from 

 continental examples of true G. galeata in narrower frontal shield and 

 in the lighter hue of their coloration, with apparently less extent of 

 olive on the upper parts and more white on the abdomen as well as 

 along' the edge of the wing. Measurements are as follows: 



Mea.siirements of GalHnula galeata. 



Num- 

 ber. 



Sex ami age. 



Date. 



Wing. 



309 Adult female j July 15, 1891 



310 Adnltiuale do 



393 do ; July 30, 1891 



6.36 

 6.70 

 6.36 



Tail. 



2.60 

 2.77 

 2.66 



Average i | 6. 47 



Cul- 

 men, 

 includ- 

 ing 

 froutal 

 shield. 



1.65 

 1.75 

 1.70 



Bill 



from 



nostril 



0.57 

 .62 



.55 



Tarsus. 



Middle 

 toe. 



1.94 2.48 

 2. 03 2. 35 

 2. 18 2. 45 



2.05 



"Frontal plate orange-vermilion; tip of beak citron yellow; base of beak poppy 

 red ; ring on tibia j ust below feathers same as fj-ontal plate ; legs and feet oil green." 

 (Adams, MS.) 



Family H.l^MATOPODID^E. 



Genus H^^MATOPUS, Linnaeus. 



Hwjnatojnis, Linn-ECS, Syst. Xat., 10th ed., 1, 1758, p. 152. Type, H. ostralcgus, 

 Linnanis. 



i^fl^^e.— Seacoasts of both hemispheres. Galapagos Archipelago 

 (one species, very closely related to, perhaps identical with, a Lower 

 California species). 



H.<EMATOPUS GALAPAGENSIS, Ridgway. 



^ Hwmafojms palUatus (nee Temminck), .Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1870, p. 323 (Indefatigable Island, Galapagos Archipelago).— Sundevall, 



Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 125 (Galapagos).— Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc., ix! 



Pt. IX, 1876, p. 502 (Indefatigable Island). 



Swmafopxs galapagensh, Ridgway, Auk, III, July, 1886, p. 331 (Chatham Island, 



Galapagos Archipelago; U. S. Nat. Mus.); Proc. U. S. Nat, Mus., IX, 1886,' 



p. 325 (Chatham Island, Galapagos Archipelago; full description); XII^ 



1889, pp. 116, 120, 123, 128 (James, Chatham, and Indefatigable islands). 



Hamatopus leucopus galapagtnsis, Skeuohm, Geog. Distr. Chaiadr., 1887 nn xxii 

 307. ' » 1 1 • - ,. 



