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Femalt. — Length (skin), 135. JSO; wing, «iH.55; tail, 40.8!>; cuhnen, 

 21.59; gon3^s, ll.y-t; depth of bill at luise, lU.ll: wndth of maxilla at 

 base, 7.87; tarsus, 21.59; middle toe, 15.75.' 



Galapagos Archipelago (Indefatigable. Duncan. Albemarle. Jervis, 

 Chatham, and Barrington Islands).'^ 



CarloDiis scandevi^ (not of (Jould) Sclatek and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond., 



LS70, 323 (Indet'atigalile I.). — Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., ix, pt. ix, 



1876, 485, part (Indefatigable I. ).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii, L890, 



108, part (Indefatigable I.). 

 Geospiza assimilis (not Cactorvh asslmilis (Tould) Ridgway, Proo* U. S. Nat. 



Mup., xvii, no. 1007, Nov. 15, 1894, 3H1 (Indefatigable I.; AlV)emarle and 



Jervii^ islands?). 

 Geoi<piza fat'ujata Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., xviii, no. 1067, Apr. 23, 1896, 



293 (Indefatigable T., Galapagos Archipelago; U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; xix, 1897, 



539 ( nionogr. ). 

 Geospiza scandens fat Igata RoTnavHiLn and Hartert, Novit. Zool., vi, Aug., 1899, 



164 (Indefatigable, Barrington, Duncan, Albemarle, James, and Chatham 



islands). 



^One adult from Indefatigable Island. 



I have myself only measured three adult and two immature males from Inde- 

 fatigable Island and two adults from Barrington Island. The average measurements 

 of these, together with specimens measured by Messrs. Rothschild and Hartert, are 

 as follows : 



^I have examined adult specimens only from Indefatigable and Barrington islands, 

 the other islands being given on authority of Messrs. Rothschild and Hartert, who 

 refer the Barrington l>irds (my G. harringtoni) to this form. As to the propriety of 

 this reference I am doubtful, since the authors mentioned admit that "the shapes of 

 the bills of the type specimen and some of the other specimens certainly look some- 

 what different, as they are plumper at the tip," though adding that " other sjjeci- 

 mens again are quite like those from the other islands." The authors mentioned 

 had not been able to examine adult males from Chatham nor Duncan islands; 

 therefore, the limits of the present form and the status of the specimens from Bar- 

 rington, Chatham, and Duncan islands must remain doubtful until more satisfactory 

 series have been carefully examined, measured, and <;ompared. 



