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Socage; " Oniithologia dos Ai.-ores." In ./. Sri. Math., P/n/s. <■ Sat. Lishoa, 

 i. pp. si)_02 (1868). 



Godman: Natural Hiatory of the Azores. London, isTo. 



Fifty-three species of birds are euumerated in this excellent little memoir. 



Simroth : " Zur Kenntniss der Azorenfauna." In ArcluL- fur Natiirgi-schichte 

 1888. i. pp. 179—234. 



Ninety-two species of birds enumerated. There are, unfortunately, a few 

 striking errors in this list — as, for exam2)Ie, with regard to the Woodpeckers, 

 whicli were procured in Portugal and thus labelled in the Ponta Delgada 

 Museum. 



The situation of the Azores can be seen in every atlas. A useful little map 

 is to be found in Mr. Godman's book, and large maps of most of the islands are 

 given in Barroi's " Kecherches sur la Faune des eaux donees des Ai;ores," in 

 Mem. Soc. Scie/we.s de Lille, cimju. serie, fasc. vi. 1890. An interesting, though 

 not zoological, work is Hartung's Die Azoren, in ihrer iiasseren Er.^cheiiii<iiy 

 unci nach ihrer geognostischen Natur gesckildert. 



(Collections of insects from various Atlantic islands made by Mr. Hartnng 

 are in the Kunigsberg Museum ; but, as far as I am aware, they have never 

 been studied.) 



[ACCOUNT OF THE EXPEDITION TO THE AZORES. 



As the Ornithology of the Azores had not been investigated since the days when 

 Mr. F. D. Godman examined pa,rt of the group in 1865, it seemed possible that 

 something of interest might still remain to be discovered, which would justify 

 another visit to the islands. 



Mr. Walter Rothschild having generously offered to defray all expenses, the 

 Trustees of the British Museum granted me three months' special leave of absence, 

 on the understanding that half the collections made should be the property of 

 the Natural History Museum. 



Leaving England on Saturday, February 14th, by the s.s. Briton of the 

 Union Castle Line, we landed the following Wednesday at Madeira. There we 

 awaited the arrival of the Portuguese mail-boat, which calls at Funchal on the 

 ■.'3rd of each month en route for the Azores. I was accompanied by my brother- 

 in-law, Mr. G. A. St. Quiutin, an enthusiastic naturalist, and by Mr. L. ('. Harwood, 

 who was engaged to join the expedition as taxidermist. To my regret, urgent 

 business compelled Mr. St. Quintin to return to England at the end of the first 

 month, and I was thus deprived of his valuable assistance. It was our intention 

 to visit, if possible, all nine islands of the Azores, and, as the time at our disposal 

 was limited, only a certain number of days could be devoted to each. I had 

 therefore before leaving England drawn up a plan of campaign, which, thanks 

 to the kindly assistance of the Portuguese authorities at the Azores, was carried 

 out almost exactly as it had been originally arranged. Our baggage, consisting 

 of forty-two i)ieces, was traushi])ped exactly twenty-four times before it was again 

 landed in England ; and though we encountered some rough weather, and had 

 some difficult landings, the natives managed their boats with such skill that we 

 lost nothing and sustained little or no damage from sea-water. 



The weather at Madeira was so wet and rough that it was found imjiossible 

 to land at Calheta and visit the high ground at the west end of the island, 



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