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Turdus iliactcs. The only specimen I have met with of 

 this bird was in January 1829, during weather unusually 

 severe for this climate, and after a continuance of north west 

 winds. 



Ticrdus merula. Common and abundant. Bowdieh says 

 something about its differing from the European species, by 

 having " the beak dark brown, and merely edged with yel- 

 low ;''' but he surely must have been deceived by a hen or 

 young cock, for it is called by the Portuguese, par excellence, 

 " o merlo com beco amarello,'" (with the yellow beak). 



Sylvia ruhecula. Common, and the robin of England in 

 every respect. 



Anthus prateiisis, (Tem.) The " meadow titling" of Flem- 

 ing, and " pipit lark" of Bewick, but not the titlarJc of 

 Pennant, although Fleming gives the latter as synonymous 

 with his meadow titling. 



* Alauda arvensis, (Tem.) Is seen only from autumn to 

 spring, and neither sings nor soars. Answers to the essential 

 character of the J. arvensis of authors, but has not the habit 

 of that bird. Will be described at some future time. 



* Cuculus Pisanus ? (Turt. ?) Brown-black ; crested ; throat 

 tawny ; neck and breast white ; wing-covers tipped with a 

 white spot ; primaries and secondaries edged only at their tips 

 ■with same ; tail (of ten feathers) nine and a-half inches long ; 

 two lateral feathers one-third shorter than rest, and obliquely 

 white the lower third of their length ; middle all black ; rest 

 tipped with white ; iris chestnut ; bill black ; legs brown-black ; 

 length sixteen, breadth twenty-three inches. Shot on 25th 

 February 1828, at Praya Bay, about a league west of Funchal, 

 during a prevalence of north winds. Another was in company, 

 but escaped. Oa the 15th August 1829, a second specimen^ * 

 differing only in having rufous remiges, was killed at the Pra- 

 zeres, about ten leagues further westward on the same line of 

 coast. The sex was not in either case ascertained. 



Musopfiaga Jfricana, (Tem.) This bird was shot in De- 

 cember 1828, in a garden in the city, and had more the appear- 

 ance of one which had escaped from confinement (although 

 that could not be ascertained) than crossed the seas. 



Upupa epops, (Tem.) Not unfrequently met with, but never 



