. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 18 3. CACTORNIS. Type. Cactornis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 6 C. Head of Cactornis scandens. Range. Confined to the Galapagos Archipelago. 1. Cactornis assimilis. Cactornis assimilis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 7; Darwin, Zool. Voy. 1 Beagle; Birds, p. 105, pi. xliii. (1841); Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 359 (1844); Bp. Consp. i. p. 542 (1850); Scl. $ Sale. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 323; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 89, no. 7308 (1870); Scl. # Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 29 (1873); Salvin, Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 486 (1876). Adult male. General col
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 18 3. CACTORNIS. Type. Cactornis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 6 C. Head of Cactornis scandens. Range. Confined to the Galapagos Archipelago. 1. Cactornis assimilis. Cactornis assimilis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 7; Darwin, Zool. Voy. 1 Beagle; Birds, p. 105, pi. xliii. (1841); Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 359 (1844); Bp. Consp. i. p. 542 (1850); Scl. $ Sale. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 323; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 89, no. 7308 (1870); Scl. # Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 29 (1873); Salvin, Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 486 (1876). Adult male. General colour above blackish, slightly varied with ashy-olive margins to the feathers, especially on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts; lesser wing-coverts like the back; median and greater coverts blackish, with sandy margins to the feathers ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, nar- rowly edged with ashy olive, the primaries margined with hoary grey ; tail-feathers blackish brown, edged with paler brown exter- nally, and with sandy brown near the tips of the inner webs ; head and neck rather browner than the back, the sides of the face, ear- coverts, throat, and breast blackish brown, the latter slightly mottled with sandy-brown edges; centre of abdomen buff'y whitish, strongly mottled with blackish-brown centres to the feathers ; sides of body, flanks, and thighs blackish brown, washed with ashy brown ; under tail-coverts blackish brown, conspicuously edged with buff'y whitish ; under wing-coverts and axillarics blackish brown, edged with ashy olive. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 2-75, tail 1-4, tarsus 0-95. Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 2-75, tail 1-5, tarsus 0-85. Hub. Bindloe Island and probably Charles or James Island. Mr. Darwin did not indicate the exact habitat of his specimen. a. S imm. sk. Galapagos Islands (C Zoological Society. (Type Darwin). of species.) b. [ 5 ] ad. sk. Galapagos Islands. S
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