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and found immliers of Shearwiiters sitting in holes in the rocks, each on its 

 single egg. Stiirlings and Canaries wore nesting on the groniul, the former nnder 

 loose stones, beneatli which we also fonnd several interesting land-shells, dift'erent 

 from those found on the mainland of Santa Maria. 



Madeira was reached on Jnne 4th, and, after a few dajs spent at the 

 Paba(;al (4ii00 ft.) in hitter cold, dense mist, and pouring rain, we returned to 

 Funchal, and caught the ('arisbroke Castle, arriving in lidudun on .Tune Kith.] 



LIST OF THE BIRDS OF THE AZORES. 

 1. Caccabis rufus (L.) 



Telriio rnfiiis Linnaeus, %s/. Xnt. Ed. x. p. 160 (1758— ex Gesner, Aldrov., .Johnston, Will, Raj., 

 Albin. "Habitat in Europa australiori. " Linnaeus must have made a mistake when he 

 mentioned this bird in his Fauna Snecica, Xo. 171.) 



i ad., San Pedro, Sta. Maria, 400 ft., 3. iii. 1903. " Iris and naked skin round 

 6)6 red, bill red, legs coral-red." 



S ? ad., near Magdalena, Pico, 200 ft., 18. v. 1903. " Iris reddish brown." 



These three examples are very dark and bright, thus resembling the Spanish, 

 and especially the Madeiran race, more than the birds from France and Italy. 



[Local name : Perdiz. 



Specimens in the Ponta Delgada Museum : 

 (I, h. Ginetes, Western San Miguel. 



Tlie Hed-legged Partridge was introduced by the early settlers into some of 

 the islands of the Azores, and is still found in some numbers on Santa Maria, where 

 we came across a few pairs on the small bean-fields and rough grass country, 

 interspersed with broom and dwarf bilberry, near the coast. It still lingers on 

 San Miguel, but is now very rare ; on Terceira it is coutined to Mount Brazil, close 

 to the town of Angra, where it is carefuU}' protected. On western Pico it is fairly 

 numerous about the fields and vineyards near the coast. So far as we could 

 ascertain it does nut exist i>u any other island of the group. The female of the j]air 

 killed on Pico on May LSth contained large eggs, and was evidently nesting. 



The birds are evidently descended from Iberian ancestors, as may be seen by 

 the bright colouring of the plumage.] 



2. Coturnix coturnix africana Temm, & Schleg. 



Colurmx vulgaris africitua Temminck & Schlegel, Fitmni Jajmnira, .ives^ p. 103 (18/iO — South 

 Africa). 



8 (? (J ad., 2 ? ?., Reguinho, Terceira, 12ni) ft., 4, 7. iv. 19n3. 



1 ? ad., Paiil, Terceira, 30. iii. 19o3. 



7 SS ad., 2 ? ? ad., Sta. Cruz, (iraciosa, 22, 23. iv. 10113. 



1 c? ad., above Caes do Pico, 1000 ft. high. May 21st, 1'.MI3. 



1 6 ad., above Horto, Fayal, 1000 ft. high, 27. v. 1903. 



All these Quails are very richly coloured, and have rufous throats, though 

 varying very much inter se. They seem to be similar to South African birds (the 

 typical afiicana), but a comparison of a larger series might possibly enable us 

 to separate them. 



A white varietv, with the dark niarliings of tlie regularlv coloured bird of a 



