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as a subspecies of the former, which I propose to name for the collector as 

 above. 



Hitherto the Cindodes appears to have been recorded only from Masafuera. 

 It is therefore of interest to find that Mr. BACKSTROM also found a specimen 

 on Masatierra. It is quite similar to the others, but rather dark. 



Mr. Backstrom remarks, that it occurred everywhere, also in the high 

 land, but that it was most common in the bottoms of the ravines, and also 

 along the shore, at places where stones are plentiful. It loves to hop among 

 the boulders. It feeds exclusively on insects. 



Eustephanus fernandensis King 



Masatierra: males, 3 



2 



^% 1917; females, 2 ^Vi: 



V12. 2 26/12, I ^Via, I '7i2. I ^7i2 1916, 2 '^4, 2 274. 



3 'V12. 



I "/12, 4 ^Via 1916, I ^V* 1917. 



The specimens of both sexes which have been collected in December re- 

 present various stages of moult in a very interesting way. Some of them 

 have none, or hardly but a single metallic feather. It is also evident that the 

 first metallic feathers appear on the posterior part of the crown, where for some 

 time they may form a bright patch, before the development of such feathers 

 has reached forward to the root of the bill. Some specimens, probably the 



Fig. I. Nest of Eustephanus fernandensis , attached to a branch of Blechnuni Schottii. Fern 

 grove on Salsipuedes, Masatierra, 660 m. Phot. C. Skottsberg. 



