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1. magnirostris, Gould, (p. 7.) 

 (Bidgw. t. e. p. 495.) 



QaUpagoa Archipelago. 

 (? Charles Island, 

 extinct^ 



2. strenua, Gouli,. (p. 8.) 



(Ridgw. t. 0. p. 496 ; Rothschild & Hartert, t. c. 

 p. 155.) 



Galapagos Archipelago 

 (? Chatham lal.) 

 Charles Isl. James Isl. 

 Bindloe Isl. 

 Abingdon Isl. 

 Indefatigable Isl. 

 .Terris Isl. 

 Albemarle Isl. 

 Duncan Isl. 

 Barrington Isl. 

 Wenman Isl. 



3. pachyrhyncha, Eidgway, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 XTiii. p. 293 (1896) ; id. Birds N. & M. 

 Amer. i. p. 498. 

 (Eothaohild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. vi. p. Ion, 

 pi. 6. figs. 7-9, 1899.) 



GaUpagos Archipelago 

 (Tower Island). 



conirostris, Eidgway, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xii. 

 p. 106, fig. 2 (1890) ; id. Birds N. & 

 M. Amer. i. p. 498. 

 (Rothschild & Hartert, t. v. p. 158, pi. 6. 



flgs. 17-20.) 

 \1 media, Eidgway, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xii. 

 p. 107, fig. 3 (1890).] 



Galapagos Archipelago 

 (Hood Isl. 

 Gardner Isl.). 



In both these volumes a revision of the FrmgUlidcB has been presented, and there 

 can be no two opinions as to the excellence of the work performed by these two 

 ornithologists. It is quite evident that some anatomical work must be put in hand, 

 before we can estimate the value of such divisions as I proposed in 1888, and this 

 will before long be undertaken ; but in the meantime, while following in the main 

 my arrangement in the ' Catalogue of Birds,' I think it better to drop the division 

 of the Fringillids into Sub-families, in face of the diversity of opinion which exists 

 between myself and the above-mentioned ornithologists, most of whose conclusions 

 I have adopted. The Finches constitute an enormous family, and their classification 

 is one of the most difficult problems for the ornithologist. ■ 



