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been introduced some years ago, I was told, from the eastern 

 islands, and is now asserting itself, at any rate, in Orotava, 

 where it breeds in trees in the plaza and is not uncommon. 



One of the principal objects of my visit to Fuerteventura 

 was to observe the Trumpeter Bullfinch {Pyrrhula githa- 

 ginea) in its wild state ; but the death of poor Baeza put a 

 stop to this. I was shown one, in a cage Avith a yellow 

 Canary from Europe, which the proprietor had recently ob- 

 tained from the eastern island, and which he hoped would 

 cross with the Canary. 



The Starling [Sturnus vulgaris) is only an occasional winter 

 visitor to Teneriffe : I did not meet with it alive, but Don 

 Ramon Gomez has a stuffed specimen in his collection. 

 Viera, in his Dictionary, says the Chough [Pijrrochorax 

 graculus) has been obtained a few times in Teneriffe ; but it 

 is strange that it should be practically confined to the island 

 of Palma, where it breeds in considerable numbers in the 

 walls of the old crater, or '^caldera/^ My friend Don F. 

 del Hoyo sent me a good pair from that place. There are 

 plenty of suitable spots for it in Teneriffe, but it has never 

 migrated from its original home to take possession of them. 



[To be continued.] 



XLV. — Notes on a Collection of Birds made by Mr. John 

 Whitehead on the Mountain of Kina Balu, in Northern Bor- 

 neo, ivith Descriptions of neiv Species. By R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, F.L.S. &c. 



(Plates XIII. & XIV.) 



Beyond the few species described by me in the ' Proceedings ' 

 of the Zoological Society for 1879 (p. 245), nothing has been 

 ascertained of the ornithology of the remarkable mountain of 

 Kina Balu. In the present paper I give some descriptions of 

 new species of the greatest interest to science, and it is remark- 

 able to find that some of the genera hitherto believed to belong 



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