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The first nest fouiul, on April 26th, was sitnated (in a ledge overhanging 

 the brink of the Fiirna do Enxnfre, in the Caldeira, Graciosa, and contained 

 two fresh eggs. The fall complement of eggs appears to he three, bnt freqnentl)- 

 only two are laid, and we found several nests containing two yonng birds, indi- 

 cating that the latter nnml)er is jterhaps more iisnal. 



The eggs are of the nsnal type : two clntches, containing three eggs eacii, 

 from San Jorge, l)eing more heavily spotted, while the third, containing two 

 eggs, from (iraciosa, lias the reddish-brown markings smaller and less nnmerons. 

 The measurements vary from 115 — 1-2 x US.") — ()',» in.] 



I'm. Saxicola oenanthe leucorrhoa ((Jm.). 



Mutiiiillii Imenrhnn, Gmelin, .Si/xf. Nat. i. p. 90lj (17H8 — ex Butl'iin . Senegal). 



A female of the large Greenland form of the Wheatear (wing liHi mm.) 

 was presented by the Ponta Delgada Museum. 



A.s no measurements were taken, it is of course uncertain whether the 

 other specimens in the Ponta Delgada Museum belong to the large form (Jencorrliod) 

 or the smaller one. It is, however, proliable that both forms occur there, but 

 that the large form is commoner, though tlie small one also occurs sometimes. 

 The birds found breeding by Mr. Godman in the old crater on (lorvo may have 

 belonged to the smaller form, S. or. oenaiithc : but the male procured im Florcs 

 belongs to the large race, its wing measuring 105 mm. 

 [Specimens in the Ponta Delgada Museum : 

 fi, I. Ponta Delgada, San Miguel. 

 c. Lagoa ,, „ 



(/. Kibeira Grande „ ,, 



Major ( !haves informed me that this bird was a regular visitor to the islands, 

 and not very rare ; but we never met with it, though much of the ground visited 

 was eminently suited to its habits. 



Mr. F. D. Godman, who was the first to recnrd this species from the group, 

 procured a s])ecinu'n in Flores, and found four or five pairs breeding in the crater 

 on Corvo.] 



mi. Erithacus rubecula (L.). 



Mnlaril/ii Ji'iihi,;,/,, I.iim.aens, Si/.-it. X,i/. eii. x. p. 1H8 (1758— " Hal)itat in Europa." Typ. loc. 

 Sweden : ex Fmnni Stiectni 22G). 



12 J ? , Santa Maria (Pico, Almagreira), 27. ii. to 2. iii. l'.M}3. 



2<i J ?, Sjui Miguel (Sete < 'ida<les, I'onta Delgada, Lameiro), March HtO:?. 



14 c^ ? , Terceira (Heguinho, Serreta, 1500 ft.), 2S. iii. to S. iv. 19n3. 



6 S6, (iraciosa (Caldcira, Sta. Cni/,, Praya), 22. to :5ii. iv. 19ii3. 

 !-! c? ?, San Jorge (above Ciilheta, rjoii td 2i"iii ft.), Jlay 1903. 



7 cJ ? , Pico, May 1 903. 



4c??, Fayal (1500 to 25rj0 ft.), May 1903. 



" Iris brown, bill blackish, feet brown." 



It is very remarkable that the birds of these islands, like those from Madeira 

 an<l tlie Canaries — with the exception of Tenerife and Gran Canaria — all belong to 

 the ]iiile-throated form, apjiarently indistinguishable from K. r. nihi't-nlu, while the 

 Biitisli Isles are inhabited by the dark-throated I'., r. iiirlo/iliiliis, Tenerife and (iran 

 (Janaria liy hi. r. supfrlm.'i. No constant ditt'erence can be seen between liirds IVdui 



