F»ROCEEDINGS 



OF THE . 



CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Fourth Series 



Vol. II, Pt. I, pp. 1-132, pis. 1-7 August 11, 1913 



EXPEDITION OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF 



SCIENCES TO THE GALAPAGOS 



ISLANDS, 1905-1906 



VIII 



THE BIRDS OF THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, WITH OBSER- 

 VATIONS ON THE BIRDS OF COCOS AND CLIPPERTON 

 ISLANDS (COLUMBIFORMES TO PELECANIFORMES) 



BY EDWARD WINSLOW GIFFORD 

 Assistant Curator of the Department of Ornithology 



The Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to 

 the Galapagos Islands was planned and organized through the 

 untiring efforts of Mr. Leverett Mills Loomis, Director of the 

 Museum of the Academy. Fortunately for the Academy, the 

 Expedition was in the archipelago at the time of the San Fran- 

 cisco earthquake and fire of April, 1906. All of the collec- 

 tions of the Academy in San Francisco were destroyed in that 

 catastrophe, so that the material gathered by the Galapagos 

 Expedition formed the nucleus for the present extensive col- 

 lections of the Academy, which have likewise been accumu- 

 lated under the direction of Mr. Loomis. The collection of 

 greatest bulk and importance brought back by the Expedition 

 was, without doubt, the reptile collection, for which the Expe- 

 dition was primarily organized. The bird collection was also 



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