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portion (together with tibio-tarsal joint) entirely naked, the acro- 

 tarsium with a single row of broad, transverse, slightly oblique, 

 scutella, the planta tarsi covered with small hexagonal scales; lateral 

 toes much shorter than middle toe, the claw of each falling decidedly 

 short of base of middle claw, the inner toe slightly longer than the 

 outer; hallux rather small, scarcely longer than basal phalanx of 

 middle toe. 



Plumage and coloration. — Plumage rather firm, that of head, neck, 

 and under parts not perfectly blended ; bare orbital space rather large. 

 Upper parts brown, the wing-coverts conspicuously spotted with black 

 and streaked or spotted with white; tail crossed by a sub terminal band 

 of black; a pale auricular stripe, margined above and below by a 

 black line; under parts vinaceous-brownish. 



Range. — Confined to the Galapagos Islands, off Ecuador. (Mono- 

 typic.) 



NESOPELIA GALAPAGOENSIS GALAPAGOENSIS (Gould). 



GALAPAGOS DOVE. 



Adult male. — Pileum dull bister brown, somewhat paler and more 

 vinaceous (nearly hays brown or natal brown) on forehead, the hind- 

 neck more olivaceous brown; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and 

 middle rectrices olive-brown (the first usually rather browner), some 

 of the more posterior feathers of the back (especially laterally) with 

 spots of black; scapulars black laterally, with a median streak of 

 white, or white and olive-brown, the more anterior ones with the 

 median stripe broader, less white (sometimes wholly brown), and 

 tipped with brown; outer webs of wing-coverts mostly black, the inner 

 webs white next to shaft, light olive-brown or grayish brown toward 

 edge, produoing a conspicuous streaked and spotted appearance, 

 the distal coverts (especially greater coverts) with outer webs mostly 

 white, or white and pale gray, produoing a rather conspicuous elongated 

 patch on the closed wing; proximal secondaries with a large black spot 

 on each web; alulae, primary coverts, primaries, and distal secondaries 

 dull grayish black or dusky, very narrowly edged with paler, the prima- 

 ries, however, narrowly but sharply edged with white and margined 

 terminally with light brownish gray or grayish brown; tail crossed by 

 a subterminal band of black, broader on lateral reotrices, narrower 

 toward middle pair, on which the black band may be either very 

 distinct or obsolete; lateral reotrices decidedly more grayish than 

 middle ones, and with the gray of terminal portion slightly paler 

 than that of basal portion; auricular region dull whitish or pale 

 brownish, margined both above and below by a streak of black; 

 lower sides of neck brightly glossed with metallic reddish purple and 

 golden bronze; malar region and anterior under parts dull vinaceous- 

 brown or sorghum brown, fading into avellaneus or pale vinaceous-buff 



