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frequently than the last resembled teur'-wee-ivee^ teur' -wee-wee^ teur' - 

 ■wee-wee. In each set the first syllable carried the accent and was 

 separated from the second by a longer interval than that between the 

 second and the third. Many were heard uttering a song sounding like 

 biir'-tee-tee-tee^ bur' -tee-tee-tee. 



The species was about as abundant on Charles as on James, but was 

 found much nearer the coast. 



69-5. GEOSPIZA SCANDENS FATIGATA (Ridgway). 



Geospiza fatigata Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvii, p. 293, 1895 (Inde- 

 fatigable Island), and xix, p. 539, 1896; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 50, Pt. 

 I, p. 511, 1 90 1. 



Geospiza barrtngtoni Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvil, p. 361, 1894 

 (Barrington Island), and xix, p. 541, 1896. 



Geospiza scandens fatigata Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. Zool., p, vi. 

 164, 1899. 



Range. — Indefatigable, Seymour, Barrington, Chatham, Duncan, 

 Jervis and Albemarle. 



This form differs from G. s. scandens in the slightly larger bill. 

 We have adult specimens from onl}' Seymour and Barrington ; the two 

 sets are indistinguishable from each other. Immature specimens from 

 Seymour, Indefatigable and Albemarle are apparently the same, but 

 those from Chatham have the bill considerably shorter and thicker, 

 more as in the young of G. s. abingdoni. 



The adult females of this species are much darker than females of 

 G. fuliginosa., G. fortis., etc. The back, top and sides of the head 

 and the throat are continuously dusky. The spots of the breast and 

 abdomen are dark dusky brown. The collection contains six adult 

 females, all of which are colored thus and absolutely duplicate the 

 color of males in Stage IV of G. fuUgmosa and the G. fortis mag- 

 nirostris series. 



Young specimens of both sexes taken in April vary in plumage 

 from Stage I to Stage III of G. fuliginosa., etc., except that they all 

 have the wide rufous bands on the wing coverts, indicating, together 

 with the date, that they are birds of the same season. The bills of 

 all are dusky above, yellow below. The collection contains three im- 

 mature specimens from Iguana Cove, Albemarle, taken in June. One 

 is a male, whose plumage is entirely dusky except for pale tips to the 

 feathers of the abdomen, but the bill is blackish only at the base, the 

 rest being yellow. It has distinct but narrow rufous edgings on the 

 wing coverts. The other two young specimens, the sex of which is 

 undetermined, are in the plumage of Stage III, the wing coverts have 



