314 Mr. P. R. Lowe on Birds collected 



CHAMiEPELIA PERPALLIDA. ♦ 



Columbigallina jmsseyina perpallida Hartert, Ibis, 1903, 

 p. 304. 



Three males and one female. 



A fairly common bird wherever the scrub is scanty and 

 the ground suitable. I shot other specimens, but had no 

 time to prepare more skins. The colour of the bill at the 

 base varies in both sexes from orange to yellow, according 

 to age. 



The under tail-coverts have very broad margins of white 

 with only very narrow wedge-shaped centres of dusky ; 

 otherwise I do not think specimens of the Los Testigos 

 Ground-Dove quite so pale as those I have obtained on 

 other islands. 



Leptoptila sp. ? 



I shot an example of a Dove of this genus on one of the 

 smaller islands, but unfortunately lost it in some thick cactus- 

 scrub ; I have no doubt, however, that it belonged to the 

 species verreauxi, which I found very common on Margarita 

 Island. 



HiEMATOPUs PALLiATUs Tcmm, 



One female. 



I saw a pair of Oyster-catchers on the rocks at the south- 

 east end of Testigo Grande, and shot one of them. Another 

 bird, at the western end of Margarita Island, was so tame 

 that it ran about on the beach within twenty yards of some 

 fishermen^s huts. 



Arenaria interpres (Linn.). 



One female. 



Several flocks of Turnstones were seen along the western 

 side of Testigo Grande, where the shore becomes morp 

 sandy and there is abundance of shell- fish. It is remark- 

 able how admirably the colour of the upper parts matches 

 with the rocks on which the birds are accustomed to settle. 

 They were exceedingly tame, and several times when I 

 approached within three or four yards of a small band 

 they only flew to an adjacent boulder and immediately 



