BIRDS or NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 161 



Jurvenal. — "Top of head and lower parts generally sooty brown, 

 darkest on pileum and sides, slightly grayish on face and throat; 

 back of neck and upper back slightly paler brown ; lower back, rump, 

 tail (with upper and lower coverts) sooty blackish; outer surface 

 of wings dark brownish, almost black ; no white spots on wing, flanks, 

 or belly."" 



Ad/idt male.— Wing 64-72.5 (66.4) ; tail 22-27 (24.6) ; exposed cul- 

 men 14.5-17 (15.6) ; tarsus 21.5-24 (22.7) ; middle toe without claw 

 23-25.2 (24.3 mm.).=» 



Adult female.— Wing 61-70.5 (66.3) ; tail 20-27 (24.5) ; exposed 

 culmen 13.5-16.2 (14.9) ; tarsus 20-23.5 (21.9) ; middle toe without 

 claw 22-25.5 (23.5 mm.)."« 



Range. — Eesident in the following islands of the Galapagos Archi- 

 pelago: Abington, James, Seymour, Indefatigable, Albemarle, and 

 Narborough. 



Tyfe locality. — Indefatigable Island, Galapagos Islands. 



Zapomia spilonota Gouu), Zool. Voy. Beagle, pt. 3, 1841, 132, pi. 49 (James 

 Island, Galapagos Archipelago ; coll. Brit. Mus.") . 



Ortygometra spilonota Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Grallae, 1844, 119. 



Porsana spilonota Sc^atee and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, 456 (James 

 Island; monogr.) ; 1870, 323 (Indefatigable Island). — Salvin, Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. London, ix, pt. 4, 1876, 500 (James and Indefatigable Islands; crit. ; 

 habits).— KiDGWAT, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., xix, 1897, 618 (Indefatigable 

 and James Islands; synonymy, descr., etc.). — Snodqeass and Hexlee, Proc. 

 Washington Acad. Sci., v, 1904, 256 (James Island). 



[Porsana'i spilonota Sclateb and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 140, part. 



Credscus spilonotus Shabpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiil, 1894, 137 (Indefatig- 

 able and James Islands). — Rothschild and Haetket, Nov. Zool., vi, 1899, 

 184 (James Island; crit.) ; ix, 1902, 418 (James Island). — Giffoed, Proc. 

 California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, ii, pt. i, 1913, 12 (Indefatigable, Narborough, 

 Abingdon, Albemarle, Seymour (?), and James Islands; crit., habits, etc.), 

 112 (measurements). — Swaeth, Occ. Pap. California Acad. Sci., xviii, 1931, 

 52 (crit.; 74 specimens; monogr.). 



[Creeiscusi spilonotus Shabpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 105. 



Oireciscus'i spilonotus Rothschiu) and Haetert, Nov. Zool., vi, 1899, 20S 

 (James Island). 



Laterallus spilonotus Petees Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 190. 



Porzana galapagoensis Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 113 (Galapa- 

 gos Islands; coll. Brit. Mus.). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xix, 1897, 

 619 (synonymy; crit). 



[Porzana] galapagoensis Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 101. 



"Ex Swarth, Occ. Pap. California Acad. Sci., xviii, 1931, 53; none seen by me. 



" Sixteen specimens from Abingdon, James, Indefatigable, and Albemarle 

 Islands. All measurements except toe ex Swarth. 



"^ Twenty-one specimens from Abingdon, James, Indefatigable, aud Albe- 

 marle Islands ; all measurements except toe ex Swarth. 



■"The type specimen has apparently been lost. 



