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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



CAMARHYNCHUS HABELI Sclater and Salvin. 

 HdBEL'S GROTHfD FINCH. 



Similar to (7. psittacultbs but smaller and bill differently shaped, the 

 culmen longer and gonys at same time shorter, the gonydeal angle 

 more pronounced. 



J/«4'.— Length (skins), about 114.30-130.81; wing, 68.07-74.17 

 (69.85); tail, 41.40-46.23 (43.94); culmen, 15.75-17.27 (16.76); gonys, 

 7.87-8.13 (8.00); width of mandible at base, 7. 87-8. 64. (8. 88); depth of 

 bill at base, 10.67-11.43 (10.92); tarsus, 21.59-22.86 (22.35); middle 

 toe, 14.73-16.00 (15.49).' 



Female.— Ij&n^th. (skins), about 113.03; wing, 67.31-69.34 (68.33); 

 tail, 41. 91^1:3.18 (42. 55); culmen, 16. 26-17. 27 (16.76); gonys, 8.13-8.38 

 (8.25); width of mandible at base, 8.64; depth of bill at base, 11.18; 

 tarsus, 22.10-22.86 (22.35); middle toe, 15.49-15-75 (15.62).' 



Galapagos Archipelago (Abingdon and Bindloe islands). 



Camarhynchus kabeli Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 323, 325, 

 fig. 3 (AWngdon and Bindloe islands, Galapagos Archipelago; coll. Salvin 

 and Godman) .' — Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., ix, pt. ix, 1876, 490, pi. 36 

 (Abingdon and Bindloe islands) . — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. ilus. , xii, 1888,' 17 

 (Abingdon and Bindloe islands). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii, 1889, 

 110 (Abingdon I.); xix, 1897, 555, pi. 56, fig. 13 (monogr.; Abingdon I.). 



ICamarhynchus} Tio&eH Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 29. 



Oeospiza Jiabeli Rothschild and Hartekt, Novit. Zool., vi, Aug., 1899, 168 (Bind- 

 loe and Abingdon islands; crit. ). 



Camarhynchus bindloei Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 294 (Bind- 

 loe I., Galapagos Archipelago; collection of Dr. G. Baur*) ; xix, 1897, 566 

 (monogr.). 



^ Five specimens, two from Abingdon Island and three from Bindloe Island. 



' Two specimens, both from Bindloe Island. 



The males from separate islands average, respectively, as follows: 



Locality. 



Two adult males from Abingdon 

 Island 



Two adult and one immature males 

 from Bindloe Island 



Wing. 



69.09 

 70. SI 



Tall. 



42.67 

 44.96 



Cul- 

 men. 



1.5.75 

 17.27 



Gonys. 



Basal 

 width 

 of man- 

 dible. 



depth 

 of bill. 



Tarsus. 



Middle 



10.67 

 11.18 



^ Xow in collection British Museum. 

 *Type now in the Tring Museum. 



22. 74 



22. 10 



1 



15.37 

 16. 4» 



