Dr Heineken on the Birds of Madeii-a. 1 49 



Sterna nigra. One example this autumn — a^. Hirundo 

 common, and I believe stationary. 



Procellaria Anglorum. A specimen was procured and stuf- 

 fed during the summer of 1828, but as I was from home I 

 know no particulars about it. At the same time with the kit- 

 tiwakes a young '\ 



Siila alba was caught at sea with a hook. Lisbon has, I 

 believe, been considered hitherto its southern limit. 



Procellaria puffiniLS, (Tem.) Arrives here in spring ; breeds, 

 and quits in autumn. 



Procellaria pelagica. One example during present summer. 

 Full one inch longer and nearly four more in breadth than com- 

 monly stated. I have not, as far as I remember, mentioned 

 here any of those birds already noticed either in this or the 

 Zoological Journal, or such generally known and universally 

 distributed ones, as the common owl, wrens, wagtails, chaf- 

 finch, goldfinch, linnet, &c., wishing to confine myself to 

 those either peculiar to us, or not known to belong to the 

 island, or differing in their economy and habits from their 

 congeners elsewhere. The majority are only occasional and 

 accidental visitors, and nine in ten perhaps are driven over 

 from the coast of Africa. Of those in this paper marked *, as 

 well as of all described either in this Journal or the Zoological, 

 as probably new, specimens have been sent to the Zoological 

 Society. We have at least three species of the bat, f viz. Vesper- 

 tilio mystacinus, (licisl.) Plecotus communis, (Geoff.,) and 

 Dinops Cestonii, (Savi.) The latter is, I have little doubt, 

 the Dinops of Savi, although I am doubtful about the species, 

 and am unwilling to describe it from only one specimen. I 

 find that Temminck considers that genus synonymous with 

 the Dysopes, IHig. and Mulossus and Nyctinoinus, Geoff., and 

 I am the more convinced of its generic identity from the dif- 

 ficulty I found in determining to which of the four it best 

 answered. Bowdich says " The bat (which ?) is more than 

 specifically distinct, &c." — " has clusters of orange warts on 



t The Fespertilio murinus I have never met with, and, from the great 

 number of genera and species, and the confusion still existing regarding 

 them, I give the specific names of those which I have seen rather doubting- 

 ly ; especially as I have had only single specimens. 



