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paler posteriorly (flesh-color on under tail coverts), deepest on breast, 

 and on throat somewhat broken b}^ exposure of white bases of the 

 feathers; under wing-coverts and axillars flesh-color, the former mixed 

 with dusky. Bill black, under mandible somewhat brownish basally; 

 legs and feet black. Length (skin), 4.85; wing, 2.50; tail, 2; exposed 

 culmen, 0.42; tarsus, 0.72; middle toe, 0.40. 



Immature male (No. 115027, U.S.N.M., Charles Island, April 8; C. H. 

 Towusend). — Above dusky brown* (very much paler than in adult), 

 paler and grayer on rump and upper tail-coverts, many of the feathers 

 of lower back and scapulars showing very indistinct and narrow paler 

 tips; wings and tail as in the adult, but the former rather paler; fore- 

 head and fore part of crown whitish, tinged with flesh-pink (especially 

 near nostrils), each feather uiarked with a rather broad mesial streak 

 of dusky brown, the hinder part of crown nearly uniform dusky, 

 but the feathers light vermilion or flesh-red beneath the surfiice. 

 Lores and orbits dusky, the ear-coverts paler and laintly tinged with 

 flesh pink; chin, throat, and malar region white, very faintly tinged 

 with flesh-pink, especially on chin; rest of under parts flesh-color, 

 deepest on flanks, paler on chest and breast, where narrowly streaked 

 with dusky. Bill and feet as in adult. Length (skin), 5; wing, 2.60; 

 tail, 2.03; exposed culmen, 0.45; tarsus, 0.71. 



Adult female (ISTo. 115028, U.S.N.M., same date, etc.). — Above gray- 

 ish olive, becoming gradually paler and more grayish (nearly " hair 

 brown") tm rump and upper tall-coverts; crown somewhat streaked 

 with paler; forehead, superciliary region, and malar region, whitish, 

 tinged with buft'y yellowish. Chin and throat buffy white; rest of 

 under x)arts, deep buff'- yellow, the chest marked with a few very indis- 

 tinct dusky streaks. Bill and feet as in the male. Length (skin), 4.80; 

 wing, 2.50; tail, 2.05; exposed culmen, 0.48; tarsus, 0.70; middle toe, 

 0.40. 



An adult male in more worn plumage (No. 125988, TJ.S.N.M., Charles 

 Island, Aj)ril 1; C. H. Townsend) is, through fading, a more pro- 

 nounced brown color above than the example described above. The 

 two other adult females show no trace of streaks on the chest. 



21. PYROCEPHALUS INTERCEDENS, new species. 



Specipc character.s. — Similar to F. nanus, Gould, (from James Island), 

 but female much brighter yellow beneath, browner above, and top of 

 head more tinged with yellow. 



Habitat. — Indefatigable Island, Galapagos. 



Adult male (No. 418, coll. Dr. G. Baur, Indefatigable Island, August 

 5, 1801). — Similar above to males from Charles Island (P. carolensis) 

 but still darker (brownish black rather than blackish brown) ; beneath 

 similar on chin, throat, and chest, but from breast back the color of a 



Much "warmer" than sepia. 



