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generally ]ilacecl at a height nl' from tea to twenty I'eet from the grounil, and 

 well concealed among the foliage of some orange tree or faya ; but on the top of 

 Villa Islet, ott' Sauta Maria, we fouud several pairs breeding in the scrubby growth 

 witliin a few inches of the ground. 



The eggs vary considerably, the ground colour being either i)ale greenish-white 

 or white tinged with rufous. In some specimens the markings consist of small 

 blotches, scribblings and iiiegnlar wavy lines with paler underlying cloudy 

 markings of i)urplish-brown ; others are irregularly covered with small spots and 

 blotches of jiale j)urplish-red or indistinct small markings and spots of light red, 

 while in yet another type the markings are scarcely perceptible. The measurements 

 vary from 0-66 — U"T6 x 0'47 — (J'oo in.] 



113. Acanthis cardiielis parva (Tsch.). 



Cardiirlis canliii'lis imrni, Tsclausi, Oiii. MumiUber. ItlOI, p. lu".l (" suilliclit Form"— typ. loc. 

 Madeira !) 



3 ? ?, San Miguel, '^4, L'H. iii. I'.Mi:?. 



o f?(?, 4 ? ¥, Terceira, 3—6. iv. 1003. 



" Iris brown ; bill whitisii horn, dark at lip; legs light iiorn-brown." 



Said to have been introduced to the Azores. If tiiis is proved, it must iiave 

 conje fnmi Madeira, as the form inhabiting the Iberian Peninsula is not [larca 

 (cf. ViKj. iial. Fauna j). 69, Nos. lUO, 1 Itl). 



[Local name : Pintasilgo. 



Tiu' Ponta Delgdda Museum contains : 



«, /;. ad., Ponta Delgada, San Miguel. 



Can/aelis cardiidis X Svrinus canariax. 



a. ad., Ponta Delgada, San Miguel. 



The Goldfinch is fairly common on San Miguel in the neighbourhood of 

 Ponta Delgada and in the Reguinho district of Terceira, above the town of Angra. 

 According to Major t'haves the species has been introduced by the liberation of 

 birds brought from Madeira. 



1 found two nests in the garden of the (juinta da Nasce Agua at Heguinho in 

 the beginning of April, one situated in a faya-tree and the other on the branch of 

 a liine, but neither of them contained any eggs U|) to tiie date of our leaving the 

 island on April lOth.] 



114. Pyrrhula pyrrhula muriua (iodm. 



Pi/rrl'iil(i iimrhiit Uuilmau, Ihis ISCiO, p. 07, |)l. vii. (San Miguul). 



10 S ? skins, 2 c?? in spirits, near Purnas, San Miguel, IT, '^■i. iii., and April 

 I'.Hili. '• Iris brown, bill black ; legs brown, or ver\' dark lioru-browii." 



[Local name : Priolo. 



Specimens in the Ponta Delgada Musciun : 

 a, h. ad. Furnas, San Miguel. 



This Bullfinch, by far the most interesting bird met with in the Azores, 

 though plentiful enough when first discovered by Mr. (iodnian. is now very scarce, 

 and its e.xterminatiou is probably only a matter of a few years. Its range was 

 ajjparently always a very restricted one, being limited to the eastern portion of San 

 Miguel, where it frequents certain wooded banks to the north of Furnas and alinnl 



