116 ALBATROSS EXPLORATIONS, BIRDS R1DGWAY. 



much smaller. Length (skin), 1G.00; wing (quills molting); tail, 3.15; 

 culmen, 1.60; greatest width of bill, .05; tarsus, 1.42; middle toe, 1.55. 

 Specimens of P. bahamensis with which the above examples have 

 been compared, and from all of which they differ in the characters 

 mentioned in the diagnosis, are from the West Indies (Bahamas, 1 ; 

 Guadeloupe, 3 ; Barbuda, 1); Buenos Ayres, 1; and Chili, 2. 



Family COLUMBID.F. 



38. Zenaida galapagoensis Gould. 



Indefatigable Island, four specimens; Duncan Island, two speci- 

 mens; James Island, five specimens; Hood Island, four specimens. 



Family H.FMATOPODID^. 



39. Heematopus galapagensis Ridgw. 



t Hcematopus palliatus Scl. and Salv. P. Z. S., 1870, 323 (Indefatigable Island).— 

 ScNDEV. P. Z. S., 1871, 125.— Salv. Trans. Zool. Soc.,ix, pt, ix, 1876, 502 (do). 



Hamatopus galapagewisBiDGW. Auk, m, July, 1886, 331 (Chatham Island); Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, Oct, 19, 1886, 325. 



James Island, one specimen. 



Family ARENARI1D.E. 



40. Arenaria interpres (Linn.). 



Hood Island, one specimen. 



Family RECURVIROSTR1TLE. 



41. Himantopus mexicanus (Mull.) ? 

 James Island, two specimens in immature plumage. 



Family SCOLOPACID^E. 



42. Heteractitis incanus (Gm.). 

 Hood and James Islands, two specimens. 



Family LARID^E. 



43. Anous stolidus (Linn.). 

 Chatham Island (Dairy mple Rock), one specimen. 



44. Anous galapagensis Sharpe. 

 Anotix galapagensis Sharpe. Philos. Trans., clxviii, 1879, 469. 



Hood and Chatham Islands, two specimens. (Certainly distinct from 

 A. stolidus.) 



45. Larus fuliginosus Gould. 



Indefatigable Island, two specimens; James Island, one specimen; 

 Chatham Island, one specimen. 



