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The Ponta Delgada Museum contains fhe following specimens : 

 a—c. i and ? ad., Ponta Delgada, San Mignel. 

 d. <S ad. (albinoj „ „ „ „ 



Si)f(umen cl is a very cnrions variety, having almost the whole iilnmage 

 white, with narrow transverse bands of greyish across the feathers ; the top of 

 the head is of the nsnal black colour, and the chin and throat are suffused with 

 dusky, suggesting the variety .S'. l/i'iiii'ltuni. 



A second albino s]iecimen, with the cap mostly white, is now in the 

 Rothschild Museum.] 



[The Blackcap was met with on all the islands throughout the grouji, but is 

 very unevenly distriimted. It is most numerous by far on San Mignel, and, as 

 might be expected, rarest on Corvo, where there is hardly any suitable covert, 

 and only a few birds were seen in the reed-hedges near the village of (^)rvo. 

 Its range is by no means confined to the gardens on the low ground, for on all 

 the islands, except Corvo, we fonnd it scattered about in pairs over the juni|i(M- 

 and heath-covered hills up to an elevation of about 30uo ft. We noted birds 

 in full song at Lameiro, San Miguel, on March sth ; bnt they did not begin to 

 breed till towards the end of May, and we were not successful in finding a single 

 nest with eggs. The habits and song do not differ from those of liritish 

 specimens.] 



103. [Sylvia atricapilla aberr. heinekeni. 



Ijocal name : Touto-vinagreiro. 



The Ponta Delgada Museum contains : 



II. adult. Ponta Delgada, San Miguel. 



A second specimen from the same locality was presented to the P>ritish 

 Museum. 



Major f'haves informs us that this variety of the Blackcap is very rare in the 

 Azores. I once met with a specimen at Biscoitos, on the north coast of Terceira, 

 bnt was unable to secure it.] 



1"4. Regulus regulus azoricus Seeb. 



Ri-fiuhiK irhliilii.i var. n-oricns Seebohm, Hist. Jtril. I!, i. [i. -Ifit (Azores). 



ft c?c?, 1 ?, Sta. Jlariii, 4iio— liKKi ft., 27, ii., 2, 3, 4. iii.'1903. 



2fi <? ?, San Miguel, '.3iiM—iniiii ft., G— 22. iii. 191(3. 



4 a, 9 ? ?, Terceira, lodo—inoii ft., 3, 7, 8. iv. 1903. 



7 cf cJ, 7 ? ?, Sap Jorge, KiOO— 2nii(i ft., 2—7. v. 1903. 



7 cJc?, o ¥ ?, Pico, 800— 30o();ft., 14—22. v. 1903. 



7 c?c?, 1 ?, Fayal, 2ooo— 2r>0() ft., 25—27. v. 1903. 



'"' S6, 7 ¥, Flores, 400-2000 ft., 15-18. iv. 1903. 



" Jris lirown, bill black ; legs light brown, feet yellowish (yellow, yellowish- 

 brown)." 



The Azorean form of the (Jolderest differs from typical /■lyul/ts in having a 

 distinctly longer bill. The wing is slightly shorter and the upper surface a shade 

 darker, but the last character is not ([uite constant. 



There is a great variation in the colour of the underside, which is olive-bulf 

 with a yellow tinge in some, bnt buff, almost whitish, in others. In the large 

 series from San Miguel every s|ii'(^iiiieu h;is an olive-lmlf uiider-surfiiee. while in 



