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Adult femdle.— Length (skins), 195-203 (199); wing, 99-103 

 (100.5); tail, 97-105 (99.7); exposed culmen, 19-20 (19.0); tarsus, 

 33-36 (34.6); middle toe, 20-22 (20.6). « 



Albemarle and Narborough islands, Galapagos Aixhipelago. 



Orpheus parvulus Gould, Proc. Zool. Sor. Lond., 1837, 27 (Galapagos Islands; 



coll. C. Darwin, now in coll. Brit. Mus.). 

 Mitnus parvulus Gould, Zool. Voy. "Beagle," iii, 1841, 63, pi. 18 (Albemarle 



I.). — ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 345 (monogr.). — S.\lvin", Trans. 



Zool. Soc. Lond., ix, pt. ix, 187(5, 472. — Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1877, 65 (Albemarle I.; crit.); Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 350. 

 [Mimus] parvulus Bonaparte, Ccjnsp. Av., i, 1850, 277. — Gray, Hand-list, i, 



1869, 262, no. 3829.— Sclater and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 3. 

 M[wius] parvulus Sundevall, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 127 (crit.). 

 Nesomimus parvulus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii, 1890, 102 (Albemarle 



I.; crit.); xix, 1897, 491, pi. 56, fig. 1 (monogr.). — Rothschild and Hartert, 



Novit. Zool., vi, 1899, 129 (Albemarle I.); ix, 1902, 383 (Albemarle and Nar- 

 borough islands;' crit.; descr. nest and eggs). 

 [Nesomimus] parvulus Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 105. 

 Nesomimus parvulus parvulus Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. Zool., \i, Aug., 



1899, 146 (North and South Albemarle islands; crit.). 

 N[esomimus] parvulus parvulus Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. Zool., vi, 1899, 



200 (Albemarle I.). 

 [Nesomimus] parvulus parvulus Rothschild and Hartert Novit. Zool., ix, 



1902, 416 (Albemarle and Narborough islands). 

 N^esomimus melanotis parvulus Sxodgrass and Heller, Proc. Wash. Ac Sci., v, 



Jan. 28, 1904, 370 (crit.; measurements). 

 Nesomimus affinis Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vii, no. liv, May 25, 1898, p. 



liii (Narborough I., Galapagos Archipelago; coll. Tring Mus.); Ibis, 1898, 437 

 ' (reprint). 



Nesomimus parvulus al)i)us Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. Zool., \ i, Aug., 



1899, 146 (crit.). 

 N[esomi7nus] parvulus a^inis Rothschild antl Hartert, Novit. Zool., \i, 1899, 



200. 

 [Nesomimus] parvulus ajliivis Ruthschilu and Hartert, Novil. Zonl., ix, 1902, 



146 (crit.). 



o Four specimens. 



Specimens from Narborough Island compare wit li those from Alljemarlc Island as 

 follows : 



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