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Common on the shores of most of the islands, and appears to be 

 found at the archipelago throughout the year. The birds are very wild, 

 however, and evidently not resident there. Taken by Baur and Adams 

 in June and July, by the Harris expedition from September to Novem- 

 ber, and by us in January and March. 



Family BMMATOPODIDM. 

 Genus HsematOpUS Linnseus. 



I/amafaJius Linn Mvs, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 152, 1758. 



Range. — Nearly cosmopolitan. Galapagos Archipelago. 



43. H^MATOPUS GALAPAGENSIS Ridgway. 



? Hcematopus palliatus Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., p. 323, 



1870 (Galapagos). 

 Hamatopus galapagensis Ridgway, Auk, iii, p. 331, 1886 (Chatham Island, 



Galapagos); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xix, p. 621, 1896. — Rothschild 



AND Hartert, Novit. Zool., VI, p. 186, 1899. 



Range. — Galapagos Archipelago: Chatham, Hood, Barrington, 

 Indefatigable, Seymour, James, Albemarle, Narboro, Bindloe and 

 Tower. 



These birds are not specially abundant anywhere but one sees them 

 at nearly every place on the shores of the islands. We found them 

 specially frequent in the small pools just back of the shore on the west 

 side of the southern Seymour Island. They were always very tame. 



Family COLUMBIDiE. 

 Genus Nesopelia Sundevall. 

 Nesopelia Sundevall, Meth. Nat. Av. Disp. Tentam., p. 99, 1872. 

 Range. — Galapagos Archipelago. 



Allied to Zenaida but differing from it in the possession of twelve 

 instead of fourteen rectrices. 



44. THE NESOPELIA GALAPAGOENSIS SERIES. 

 44a. NESOPELIA GALAPAGOENSIS GALAPAGOENSIS 



(Gould). 



Zenaida galapagoensis GouLD, Zool. Voy. Beagle, III, Birds, p. 115, pi. 46, 



1 84 1 (Galapagos Archipelago). 

 Nesopelia galapagoensis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xix, p. 614, 1896. 

 Nesopelia galapagoensis galapagoensis Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. 



Zool., VI, p. 183, 1899. 



Range. — Charles, Hood, Chatham, Barrington, Indefatigable, 

 Duncan, Jervis, James, Albemarle, Narboro, Abingdon, Bindloe and 

 Triwer. 



