376 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female.— hength (skins), 193-199 (196); wing, 126-131 

 (128.5); tail, 68-69 (68.5); exposed culmen, 16.5; tarsus, 23-23.5 

 (23.2); middle toe, 20-21.5 (20.7). « 



Wenman and Culpepper Islands, Galapagos Archipelago. 



Nesopelia galapagoensis exsul Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. Zool., vi, Aug., 

 1899, 184 (Culpepper and Wenman Islands, Galapagos Archipelago; coll. Tring 

 Mus.); ix, 1902, 418 (Wenman and Culpepper Islands). — Snodgrass and Hel- 

 ler, Proc. Wash. Ac.Sci., V. 1904, 263 (Wenman and Culpepper Islands; crit.). 



N[esopelia\ galapagoensis exsul Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. Zool., vi, 

 1899, 203. 



[Nesopelia] galapagoensis subsp. exsul Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., 

 ii, 1900, 138 (reprint of orig. descr.). 



Nesopelia galapagensis exsul Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. Zool., vi, 1899, 

 108 (Culpepper Island, Galapagos). 



[Nesopelia] galapagoensis Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 77, part. 



Nesopelia galapagoensis Gifford, Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., 4th ser., ii, pt. 1, 1913, 

 6, part (Culpepper and Wenman Islands), 111, part (measurements). 



Genus MELOPELIA Bonaparte. 



Jl/ietopeZm Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xl, 1855, 98; Consp. Gen. Av., ii, 1857, 81. 



(Type, as fixed by Gray, 1855, Columba meloda Tschudi.) 

 Melopeleia (emendation) Reichenbach, Vollst. Naturg., Columbariae, i, 1861, 22. 



Medium-sized or rather small arboreal or semi-terrestrial pigeons 

 Gength about 235-315 mm.), similar to Zenaida, but with relatively 

 longer and less strongly rounded tad, consisting of only twelve (instead 

 of fourteen) rectrices, these broader terminally; much less (instead 

 of much more) than basal half of tad overlaid by the coverts; with 

 bare orbital space larger anteriorly, involving a considerable part of 

 the lores; without black spots on wings, but with a conspicuous white 

 patch involving distal coverts. 



Bill moderately long, relatively slender, the exposed culmen longer 

 than distance from its base to posterior angle of eye (about equal to 

 outer toe, without claw), its greatest depth equal to much less than 

 one-fourth the exposed culmen, the horny terminal portion relatively 

 very short, that of maxilla but Httle more than half as long as the 

 straight, constricted basal portion, very slightly arched basally, 

 the gonydeal angle only slightly prominent; antia of frontal feather- 

 ing decidedly posterior to malar antia, the mental antia about even 

 with anterior end of nostrils; nasal operculum relatively small, but 

 broad and distmctly tumid. Wing rather large, pointed, the longest 

 primaries exceeding distal secondaries by slightly more than one-third 

 the length of wing; second and third primaries (from outside) longest, 

 the first longer than fourth, the longer primaries rather pointed at 

 tips, none with inner webs sinuated. Tad two-thirds as long as wing, 

 or slightly more, consisting of twelve rectrices, of which only the 

 middle pair are appreciably narrower terminally, moderately rounded 



o Two specimens, from Wenman Island. (Culpepper Island specimens not seen.) 



