G. fuliginosa, crisso cinerascenti-albo; rostro nigro-brunnescente lavato; pedibus nigris.
Long. tot. 6 unc.; alæ, 3½; caudæ, 2; tarsi, 1; rostri, ⅞; alt. rost. 1.
Fœm. vel Mas jun.; corpore intensè fusco singulis plumis olivaceo cinctis; abdomine pallidiore; crisso cinerascenti-albo; pedibus el rostro, ut in mare adulto.
Sooty black; with the vent cinereous white, the bill black, washed with brownish, and the feet black.
Female, or young male: Deep fuscous, with each feather margined with olive, the abdomen much paler, with the under tail-coverts cinereous white, the feet and bill like those of the male.
Habitat, Galapagos Archipelago. (Charles and Chatham Islands.)
I have strong reasons for believing this species is not found in James’s Island. Mr. Gould considers the G. magnirostris as the type of the genus.
2. Geospiza strenua. Gould.
Plate XXXVII.
G. fuliginosa, crisso albo, rostro fusco et nigro tincto; pedibus nigris.