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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



CAMARHYNCHUS HABELI Sclater and Salvin. 



H ABEL'S GROUND FINCH. 



Similar to C. psittaculm but smaller and bill dilferently shaped, the 

 ci>lmen longer and gonys at same time shorter, the gonydeal angle 

 more pronounced. 



J/«^6.— Length (skins), about 114.3(»-130.81; wing, 68.07-74.17 

 (69.85); tail, 41.40-46.23 (43.94); culmen, 1.5.75-17.27 (16.76); gonys, 

 7.87-8.13(8.00); width of mandible at base, 7.87-8.64(8.38); depth of 

 bill at base, 10.67-11.43 (10.92); tarsus, 21.59-22.86 (22.35); middle 

 toe, 14.73-16.00 (15.49).' 



Female.— luQngih (skins), about 113.03; wing, 67.31-69.34 (68.33); 

 tail, 41.91^3.18 (42.55); culmen, 16.26-17.27 (16.76); gonys, 8.13-8.38 

 (8.25); width of mandible at base, 8.64; depth of bill at base, 11.18; 

 tarsus, 22.10-22.86 (22.35); middle toe, 15.49-15-75 (15.62).- 



Galapagos Archipelago (Abingdon and Bindloe islands). 



CamarliyndiKS Iiabeli Scl.vter and 8.\lvix, Prof. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 323, 325, 

 fig. 3 (Abingdon and Bindloe islands, Galapagos Archipelago; coll. Salvin 

 and Godman).* — Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lend., ix, pt. ix, 1876, 490, pi. 36 

 (Abingdon and Bindloe islands) . — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 17 

 (Abingdon and Bindloe islands). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii, 1889, 

 110 (Abingdon I.); xix, 1897,555, pi. 56, fig. 13 (monogr. ; Abingdon I.). 



ICcuiutrliiinclius'] //o6rfi Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 29. 



Geospiza h<il>di Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. Zool., vi, Aug., 1899, 16S (Bind- 

 loe and Abingdon islands; crit. ). 



Camarlujnchus hindloel Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 294 (Bind- 

 loe I., Galapagos Archipelago; collection of Dr. G. Baur'*) ; xix, 1897, 556 

 ( monogr. ) . 



'^Five specimens, two from Abingdon Island and three from Bindloe Island. 



^ Two specimens, both from Bindloe Island. 



The males from separate islands average, respectively, as follows: 



•■' Now in collection British Museum. 

 ■•Type now in the Tring Museum. 



