or THE GALAPAGOS AKCHIPELAGO. 



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not on Bindloe, where I was unable to secure a female. It is more numerous on 

 Abingdon, the only other island on which it is found except Albemarle. It not only 



CamarhifiHliiis liaheli. 



picks the Opuntia bushes to get at the juice, which serves it for water, but it also 

 swallows the pulp as food. Its song is harmonious, and the bird one of the best 

 songsters of these islands." — H. 



[Camaehynchus cineeeus. 

 Giiiraca cinerea, Lafr. Mag. de Zool. 1843, pi. 30. 

 Camarhynchus cinereus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 542. 

 Guiraca cendrS, Prev. et Des Murs, Voy. Venus, Ois. p. 209. 



Hab. Galapagos [Leclilancher). 



I have not seen this species, and am unable to recognize it in Dr. Habel's collection. 

 Judging from the figure (a bad one), the bird would appear to be quite distinct from 

 any other of the known Galapagan birds. Lafresnaye considered it to belong to a 

 distinct subgenus, which he called FiezorMna\'] 



Genus Doliciioxyx. 

 A widely ranging North-American genus of the family Icteridse, migrating in winter 

 to the northern portions of South America. D. oryzimrus is the only land-bird found 

 in the Galapagos specifically identical with that found on the mainland. 



UOLICHONY'X OEYZIVOEUS. 



Emberiza oryzivora, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 311. 



Dolichonyx oryzivora, Sw. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 351 ; Darwin, Voy. Beagle, iii. p. 106. 



Hal. James Island {Darwin). 



' In his ' Conspectus A\-ium ' (i. p. 479) Priuce Bonaparte described a Fringilline bird from the Galapagos 

 as Zonotiichia gaUpagoensh. From an examination of this type in the Paris Museum it appears to me to be 

 only a specimen of the Californiau Z. coronata, to which a wrong locality has been assigned. 



