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SNODGRASS AND HELLER 



three adult males and one adult female from the northern Seymour 

 Island, and three adult males and three adult females from the southern 

 Seymour Island, besides several immature specimens ; all taken during 

 the last of April and the first of May. 



MEASUREMENTS OF ADULT SPECIMENS OF Nesomimus melanotis 



dierythrus. 



8o3. NESOMIMUS MELANOTIS BARRINGTONI 

 (Rothschild). 



Nesomimus carringtoni ROTHSCHILD, Bull. Brit. Ornith. [Club, Oct., p. 52, 

 1898 (Barrington Island.) (Name a misprint for barringtoni.} 



Nesomimus melanotis carringtoni ROTHSCHILD AND HARTERT, Novit. Zool., 

 vi, p. 145, 1899. 



Nesomimus melanotis melanotis ROTHSCHILD AND HARTERT (in part), Novit. 

 Zool., vi, p. 145, 1899 (Wenman). 



Range. Barrington and Wenman. 



The Nesomimus of Barrington was separated by Rothschild from 

 the James N. melanotis on the " longer and slenderer bill, shorter wing 

 and generally paler upper surface." These characters hold in our 

 specimens. The race is, however, rather related to the Indefatigable 

 form than to the James rate, resembling the former in the color of the 

 head and back and differing from it in the greater length of the culmen, 

 the length of the culmen in N. m. barringtoni averaging about 22.6 

 in length. 



