18 FRINGILLID.E. 



3. CACTORNIS. 



Type. 

 Cactornis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 6 C. scandens. 



Head of Cactornis scandens. 

 Range. Confined to the Galapagos Archipelago. 



1. Cactornis assimilis. 



Cactornis assimilis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 7; Darwin, Zool. Voy. 

 1 Beagle; Birds, p. 105, pi. xliii. (1841) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 359 

 (1844); Bp. Consp. i. p. 542 (1850); Scl. $ Sale. P. Z. S. 1870, 

 p. 323; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 89, no. 7308 (1870); Scl. # Salv. 

 Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 29 (1873) ; Salvin, Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 486 

 (1876). 



Adult male. General colour above blackish, slightly varied with 

 ashy-olive margins to the feathers, especially on the lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; 

 median and greater coverts blackish, with sandy margins to the 

 feathers ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, nar- 

 rowly edged with ashy olive, the primaries margined with hoary 

 grey ; tail-feathers blackish brown, edged with paler brown exter- 

 nally, and with sandy brown near the tips of the inner webs ; head 

 and neck rather browner than the back, the sides of the face, ear- 

 coverts, throat, and breast blackish brown, the latter slightly mottled 

 with sandy-brown edges ; centre of abdomen buff'y whitish, strongly 

 mottled with blackish-brown centres to the feathers ; sides of body, 

 flanks, and thighs blackish brown, washed with ashy brown ; under 

 tail-coverts blackish brown, conspicuously edged with buff'y whitish ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillarics blackish brown, edged with ashy 

 olive. Total length 5 inches, culmen - 9, wing 2 - 75, tail 1-4, 

 tarsus - 95. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 5 inches, culmen 

 0-85, wing 2-75, tail 1-5, tarsus 0-85. 



Hub. Bindloe Island and probably Charles or James Island. Mr. 

 Darwin did not indicate the exact habitat of his specimen. 



a. S imm. sk. Galapagos Islands (C Zoological Society. (Type 



Darwin). of species.) 



b. [ 5 ] ad. sk. Galapagos Islands. Sir W. Burnett & Admiral 



Fitzroy [P.]. 

 c,d. 3 $ imm. sk. ; Bindloe Island, Nov. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 c. ? ad. sk. (Dr. A. Habel). 



