De Benedicto 1964 Feb 15 Punta Suarez, Isla Espanola (Wood), Galapagos. Ortiz caught a Dronicius (looked like hordenais) on Gardner and Carpenter caught many geckos on Pta Cevallos under drift wood. I looked on Gardner for Geckos but didn't find any. Koford gave me a partial Tropic-bird skeleton from Pta. Cevallos. In the evening at Pta Suarez heard Oystercatchers flying along the beach, calling loudly, several times after dark. Rained a little during the night. Feb 16 Got up late and after breakfast finished my notes and skinned out yesterday's birds. Carpenter counted 107 doves flying inland over the camp in a 15 minutes area. Most Cuthideus song in the A.H. Spent the entire morning and most of the afternoon skinning the birds I shot yesterday. Even though they were gutless they were very soft + lost much of the body feathers of the Pta. Cevallos birds. The Gardner birds held up much better. The workers all had a fair amount of fat around the lower neck and even in heavy molt on the wings and much of the body. They all managed to close on their breasts in spite of large wads of cotton down the throat. They had 6-12 cists under the stern in the region of the skull-neck join, at several points around the neck. The finches showed less molt; the one from Gardner was the fattest finch I have yet handled. The mocking may be post-breeding, for one testis was certain yellowish, more so than the others. The eye was deep brownish red, the bill dark oliveaceous black, the legs