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delicate grey, aud a melanistic aberration, both I'rom Sau Miguel, were presented 

 by the Ponta Delgada Museum. 



[Local name : Cordoniz. 



Specimens in the Ponta Delgada Museum : 

 a, b. adult, Ponta Delgada, !Saa Miguel. 

 c. albino, Furnas ,, „ 



il. albino, Ribeira (trande ,, „ 



('. dark variety, Lagoa „ „ 



The dark varieties are very curious, and have somewhat the appearance aud 

 colouring of diminutive Red Grouse. 



This resident red-throated form of the Quail was met with in varying numbers 

 on all the eastern and central islands of the group, being particularly plentiful in 

 Graciosa, where, had we wished to do so, large bags might have been made. On 

 Flores and Corvo we never came across the bird, though we were informed that it 

 does occur on the former island. On the wing it is strikingly smaller than the 

 common Quail, and though the weight of the two birds was never actually comi)ared, 

 the difference must be considerable. E.\cei)t on San Miguel, and to some extent on 

 Santa Maria, the close season is not observed, and on the other islands, Terceira 

 especially, the local gunners shoot Quail at all seasons iu the most open manner 

 and sell them for 50 reis, or about 2'/. each. The call-note is indistinguishable 

 from that of the common Quail.] 



3. Coturnix coturnix coturnix (L.) 



2 c??. San Pedro, Sta. Blaria, 1, 3. iii. 19m3. "Iris hazel, legs yellowish- 

 white, bill bluish-horn." 



[Early in March a few tyi)ical e.xamples of the common migratory Qnail were met 

 with on Santa Maria on the cultivated fields lying between San Pedro and the sea. On 

 the wing they were easily distinguished from the resident red-throated form by their 

 larger size. As we did not meet witli the s]iecies on any of the other islands subse- 

 quently visited, though we shot numbers of Qnail, it seems probable tluit the birds 

 we found on Santa Maria were accidental visitors to the group. No doubt from 

 time to time small lots of the migratory bird visit the Azores on passage, and 

 remaining on the island, interbreed with the resident form ; for some of the male 

 sjiecimens we ))rocured on Terceira and (iraciosa appeared to be intermediate in 

 plumage, having the throat chestnut, largely mixed with whitish feathers, wliile the 

 breast and upper mantle were paler than in C. afriruna and more like those of 

 the common Quail.] 



4. Columba palumbus azorica subsp. nov. 



Tile Ring-Dove of the Azores differs from the typical North European y;rf///w4//.s 

 in the deeper and more vinous colour of tlie chest and the darker slate-grey rump 

 and head ; also the longer upper tail-coverts are more brownish, and the under tail- 

 and wing-coverts are generally a shade darker and duller. While these differences 

 are very conspicuous in the males, they are less distinct in some of the females. 

 The wing is on an average i to I cm. sliorter. Type 6 ad. no. 33n, Reguinlio, 

 Terceira, 1200 ft., 7. iv. 1903. 



Mr. Grant sent specimens from San Miguel, Terceira, East Graciosa, San Jorge, 

 and Pico. 



