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lowish, greenish and scarlet, still farther forward entirely scarlet, tip 

 same as claw of upper mandible. Bare skin at base of bill dark pur- 

 plish. Lower eyelid pink. In another specimen of the same date the 

 ground color of the pouch was pale yellowish-green, the lines dark 

 brown, almost no purplish color, a shade of the latter color along the 

 rami of the mandible and edges of the throat feathers ; bill colored the 

 same as first specimen, but the lower eyelid purplish. 



Family FREGATID^E. 

 Genus Fregata Brisson. 

 Fregata Brisson, Ornithologist, vi, p. 506, 1760. 

 Range. — Intertropical seas. 



20. FREGATA AQUILA (Linnceus). 



Pelecanus aquilus LiNNiEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 133, 1758. 

 Fregata aqidla Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xix, p. 590, 1896 (Gala- 

 pagos). — Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. Zool., vi, p. 175, 1899. 

 Fregata aqidla minor Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xix, p. 591, 1896 

 (Galapagos). 

 Range. — Intertropical and subtropical seas. Galapagos Islands. 

 Common everywhere about the archipelago, observed at all the 

 islands. Found nesting on Culpepper and Wenman in December, 

 and on Tower in June. 



Family ANATID^. 



Genus Anas Linnaeus. 



Anas LiNNiEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 122, 1758. 

 Range. — Cosmopolitan. 



21. ANAS VERSICOLOR Vieillot. 



Anas versicolor \\Y.\\A.OT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., v, p. 109, 1816. 



Querqiiedida versicolor Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., ix, p. 499, 1876 

 (Galapagos). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xix, p. 614, 1896. — 

 Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. Zool., vi, p. 183 ,1899. 



Range. — Southern part of South America and the Galapagos 

 Archipelago. 



One specimen said to have been taken by Kinberg. None reported 

 from the Galapagos since. 



Genus Poecilonetta Eyton. 

 Poecilonetta Evton, Monogr. Anatidai, p. 16, 1838. 



Range. — South America, West Indies, Bahamas, Galapagos. 



