DeBenedictis 1964 87 6 Feb Academy Bay, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos. One of a pair, of which Dr. Miller got the ♀. The ♂ was feeding a young bird, out of its nest and barely able to fly, with down patches & wisps on the head. She had a clay hood patch, but like every looked like it was ready to go, well this 2 1/2 mm ova and no sign of older ova. Stomach contained several seeds of Opuntia and the head of a crambiced beetle. Saw one of the pair feeding on the ground, running about and picking food from the ground. One spent 3 seconds on a fallen Opuntia pad. Although there was a fair amount of little saw no flinching. No wing flushing and not much tail flicking. The ♂ stomach contained a Cordia pet & several seeds of Opuntia. Heard a very deep Geospiza song and found a nice black ♂ magnirostris which I collected on the top of a Santa Cruz bush. Billy Cutler saved the skins of this. The "warren" Over towards the barranco heard the "chi" song of Platyspiza and took a beautiful ♀. It is a large bird, even larger than the magnirostris but does not have really the jaw musculature of his "magi". G. fulis, fuligurosa, and scandens were quite common along here. and Camarhynchus parvulus and Yellow Warbler less common. Saw three Myrenchus pressing in & tree together, like soft Ash-the calls. 2 flew off leaving one alone, which later disappeared. Along the barranco saw a large finch in a tree and shot it hoping for another crossinotic but it turned out to be a ♀ fortis with a hood patch, not very thick but definitely vascular. Crop full of a small grevillea seed,