96 Mr. F. Du Cane Godman on the Birds of the Azores. 



greira/^ a term given to the Redbreast in St. MichaeFs. It is 

 much prized by the Portuguese, who are fond of keeping it 

 as a cage-bird. 



Regulus cristatus (Linnaeus). " Estrellinha." 

 Frequents chiefly the junipers [Juniperus oxycedrus) and tree 

 heaths [Erica azorica) in the mountains, and is but seldom seen 

 in the gardens or lower country. I have compared my examples 

 with British and South European specimens, and find that the 

 former are rather stouter and stronger in the beak and legs, and 

 also somewhat longer in the tail. Mr. Gould showed me a 

 Golden-crested Wren from Eastern Asia which agrees with my 

 Azorean bird in all respects. 



Saxicola cenanthe (Linnseus). 



I shot a single example of the Wheatear in Flores, after a 

 strong gale of wind, and I at first believed it was a straggler 

 from the continent ; but I afterwards found four or five pairs in 

 the old crater on Corvo, which had bred there, as I saw young 

 birds that could scarcely fly. The inhabitants have no name 

 for this bird, and I did not meet with any one who knew it ; so 

 I believe it to be a recent settler. 



MoTACiLLA suLPHUREA, Beclistcin. "Alveola" or " Lavan- 

 diera." 



Common, wherever there is water, throughout all the islands. 

 I have compared it with European specimens, with which it 

 agrees well, with the exception of the tail being rather shorter. 

 Mr. Gould, however, showed me some examples from Eastern 

 Asia which in this respect are exactly the same as the Azorean 

 bird. It is resident the whole year. 



tPLECTROPHANES NIVALIS (Linuseus). 



A flock of about twenty of these birds appeared last winter 

 in the island of Corvo. They were said to have been much 

 exhausted when they arrived, and several were caught and kept 



(Zool. Joiu-n. V. pp. 75-79) as occurring in Madeira, wliere a similar story 

 is also told concerning its origin. It was subsequently described by Sir 

 W. Jardine (Edinb. Jovu-n. Nat. & Geog. Science, Jan. 1830, i. p. 243), 

 and figured by him and Mr. Selby in their ' Illustrations of Ornithology,' 

 pi. 94, imder the name of Curmca heinekem. — Ed.] 



