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as a subspecies of the former, which I propose to name for the collector as 
above. 
Hitherto the C7zzclodes 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 7/12, 2 ?°/19; 1 ?"/is,1 7°/12, 1 7°/18 TOTO, -20~) een 
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2 "91, 1917; females, 2 ?°/i2, 3 7°/12, 1 ?"/1s, 4 **/12 1Q10, ue alee 
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. 1. Nest of Eustephanus fernandensis, attached to a branch of Blechnum Schottit, Fern 
grove on Salsipuedes, Masatierra, 660 m. Phot. C. Skottsberg. 
