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Wenman is also very rugged and steep, but can be pretty well 
explored. The following observations were made entirely on 
that island, which was visited on September 24. Culpepper 
was visited the following day. 
When we landed, a dozen of these interesting little birds 
and a pair of mockingbirds were peering over a ledge at us 
within a couple of feet of our heads, exhibiting great curi- 
osity. 
A number of nests of the usual Geospiza type were seen in 
the bushes, but no eggs or nestlings were found. Several 
birds were heard singing and one was observed carrying a 
bit of grass in its bill, Three males I skinned had very large 
testes. I shot four young which had been out of the nest but 
a few days. Black individuals were not common. 
Whenever I shot a bird several others would gather about 
it and pick at the blood. I saw some feeding on cactus, some 
on leaves, like the Sooty Ground Finches, but the great ma- 
jority were feeding on the ground, where they scratch and 
dig quite vigorously. 
This species was the most fearless and least suspicious of 
all of the finches of the archipelago, for, instead of leaving 
when one of their number was shot, they came about all the 
thicker to see what the trouble was. 
So far as known there are no introduced or indigenous 
mammalia to bother them on either Wenman or Culpepper; 
nor are hawks known. The Galapagos Short-eared Owl, how- 
ever, is reported from Culpepper. 
27. Pinaroloxias inornata: (Cocos ISLAND FINCH 
This species combines the habits of a ground-feeding finch 
with those of a tree-feeding warbler. It was found commonly 
in September, 1905, everywhere we went on Cocos Island, 
Costa Rica, being equally adapted to both cultivated ground 
and virgin forest. It made itself at home in and about the 
houses of the settlement at Wafer Bay. 
Much of its food was obtained by hanging head downward 
from twigs and leaves. Some individuals which we caged on 
board the schooner lived on bird seed and bread. I saw one 
bathe in the drinking cup. 
