314 Mr. P. R. Lowe on Birds collected 
Chaivmspelia perpallida. 
Columbigallina passerina perpallida Hartert, Ibis, 1903, 
p. 304. 
Three males and one female. 
A fairly common bird wherever the scrub is scanty and 
the ground suitable. I shot other specimens, but had no 
time to prepare more skins. The colour of the bill at the 
base varies in both sexes from orange to yellow, according 
to age. 
The under tail-coverts have very broad margins of white 
with only very narrow wedge-shaped centres of dusky; 
otherwise I do not think specimens of the Los Testigos 
Ground-Dove quite so pale as those I have obtained on 
other islands. 
Leptoptila sp. ? 
I shot an example of a Dove of this genus on one of the 
smaller islands, but unfortunately lost it in some thick cactus- 
scrub ; I have no doubt, however, that it belonged to the 
species verreauxi , which I found very common on Margarita 
Island. 
H^ematopus palliatus Temm. 
One female. 
I saw a pair of Oyster-catchers on the rocks at the south¬ 
east end of Testigo Grande, and shot one of them. Another 
bird, at the western end of Margarita Island, was so tame 
that it ran about on the beach within twenty yards of some 
fishermen's huts. 
Arenaria interpres (Linn.). 
One female. 
Several flocks of Turnstones were seen along the western 
side of Testigo Grande, where the shore becomes more 
sandy and there is abundance of shell-fish. It is remark¬ 
able how admirably the colour of the upper parts matches 
with the rocks on which the birds are accustomed to settle. 
They were exceedingly tame, and several times when I 
approached within three or four yards of a small band 
they only flew to an adjacent boulder and immediately 
