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on chin, deepest on chest, passmg into a paler and more grayish hue 

 posteriorly, the under tail-ooverts brownish gray, with larger coverts 

 dusky beneath surface; axillars and under wing-coverts bluish gray 

 (dark gull gray or neutral gray); bill black; iris brown; bare orbital 

 skin cobalt blue or light violet-blue (in life) ; legs and feet red (dark 

 coral red to lake red); length (skins), 188-232 (217); wing, 121.9-138 

 (130.4); tail, 55.6-79 (68.9); exposed culmen, 16-19 (17.5); tarsus, 

 20.8-26.5 (24.6); middle toe, 21-24.1 (22.5).« 



Adult /emaZe.— Similar to the adult male, but color of anterior 

 under parts less strongly purplish or vinaceous, metallic gloss on 

 sides of neck more restricted and somewhat less brilliant, and size 

 smaller; length (skuis), 182-226 (199); wing, 115-123 (120.4); 

 tail, 59-76 (66); exposed culmen, 15-17 (15.8); tarsus, 21-23.5 (22.3); 

 middle toe, 18.5-21 (19. 8).^ 



Galapagos Islands, except Wenman and Culpepper. (Abingdon, 

 Albemarle, Barrington, Bindloe, Charles, Gardner near Charles, 

 Chatham, Daphne, Duncan, Hood, Gardner near Hood, Indefatigable, 

 James, Jervis, Narborough, Seymour, and Tower islands). 



Zenaida Galapagoensis Goulu, Zool. Voy. "Beagle," iii, Birds, 1841, 45, pL 46 

 ([Charles Island?] Galapagos group). — Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Columbse, 

 1856, 48 ("Chili?^').— ScLATER and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 323 

 (Indefatigable and Bindloe islands, Galapagos). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., xii, 1890, 116 (Indefatigable, Duncan, James, and Hood islands, 

 Galapagos). 



Z[enaida] galapagoensis Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 475. 



o Twenty-four specimens. 



^ Seventeen specimens. 



Locality. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



Two adult males from Duncan Island , 



Six adult males from Indefatigable Island 



Four adult males from Hood Island 



Two adult males from Tower Island 



One adult male from James Island 



Five adult males from Chatham Island 



One adult male from Albemarle Island 



Two adult males from Bindloe Island 



One adult male from Abingdon Island 



Two adult males from Wenman Island ( JV. g. ezsul) . . 



FEMALES. 



Four adult females from Indefatigable Island 



Four adult females from Hood Island 



Four adult females from James Island 



Three adult females from Biadloe Island 



One adult female from Abingdon Island 



One adult female from Daphne Island 



Two adult females from Wenman Island ( iV. g. exsul) 



21.7 



22.9 



21.9 



23.5 



22 



22.7 



24 



22 



22.5 



24.2 



19.7 



20.2 



19.5 



19.3 



21 



19 



20.7 



