Vox. II, Pt. II] GIFFORD—BIRDS OF THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS PASS) 
the latter part of August. On the 19th of March, 23 were 
taken on the mountain above Iguana Cove, Albemarle, where 
the humid zone comes down to the seashore. Most of the birds 
were taken at 200 or 300 feet elevation, however, On the 
20th I saw only five or six. On March 26 a male was taken 
at 3000 feet elevation on the west side of Tagus Cove Moun- 
tain, Albemarle, where there is no true moist region. Cactus 
and other arid-region plants occur to within 100 feet of 
the summit (about 4000 feet), which, at the place we climbed, 
was crowned with tall, coarse grass, higher than our heads. 
On the 31st an individual was observed feeding in a large 
tree at 1500 feet elevation. None were seen in the mangrove 
swamps on the shores of Banks Bay, Albemarle. On the 
Banks Bay Mountain, however, an adult was taken at an 
altitude of 1900 feet on April 14, while one or two immature 
ones were seen at the base of the mountain. One or two 
individuals were also seen in a small flat valley between the 
main mountain and a small recent volcano near its base. On 
the east side of Cowley Mountain, Albemarle, a region of 
scanty vegetation and of pumice-stone soil, a dozen were taken 
on August 10 and 11, above 1200 feet elevation, which is well 
within the arid region. 
In the arid region of James, on an island of vegetation 
cut off from the nearest plant life by several miles of fresh 
lava and cinders and bordered by the ocean on the south, 
one was taken on December 19. In the humid region 
behind James Bay, James, several were taken in latter Decem- 
ber and early January. One was feeding on an Erythrina tree 
with red flowers, in company with Darwin’s Tree Finch, 
Black-headed Tree Finch, and some small black ground finches, 
probably the Sooty Ground Finch. Two were taken on 
August 8, at the lower edge of the moist zone. On August 6 
a striped individual was taken in the green bushes bordering 
the lagoon behind the beach at James Bay. On August 1, 
an individual was taken in the rough, arid region of northeast 
James, lying northwest of Sullivan Bay and Bartholomew 
Island. 
These birds, in common with all of the tree finches, were 
never observed to take any extended flights, but were seen 
flying from bush to bush and tree to tree, where they seem to 
