164 Mr. F. Du Cane Goduian on the Resident and 



days before he could be rescued, as it is impossible to land 

 in heavy weather. 



A party of sailors go annually to the Salvages for the fish- 

 ing, and spend some months camped out on these islands. I 

 was told that they also collect and salt large quantities of the 

 sea-birds which resort there to breed, and bring them home 

 preserved in barrels. They were there when I was in Madeira ; 

 so I could not gain any information from them about the bir^s 

 of those islands. 



I left Madeira for England a few days after my trip to the De- 

 sertas, so had not another opportunity of revisiting them. 



I collected a considerable number of birds' skins in Madeira 

 and the Canaries, in the latter group principally from the island 

 of Teneriffe. These, since my return home, I have carefully 

 compared with European examples of the same or most nearly 

 allied species, and also with my Azorean specimens. 



In the following hst I have marked those birds I observed 

 myself with a dagger (f) ; in other cases 1 have given the 

 authority for their admission. It will be seen that there are 

 several species I did not meet with. This is to be accounted 

 for by my comparatively short stay, and also by the fact of my 

 being able to visit only some of the islands. 



1. fNEOPHRON PERCNOPTERUS (Liuu.). 



Neophron pei'cnoj)terus, W. & B. Orn. Can. p. 5 ; Bolle, J. 

 fur Orn. 1854, p. 448, and 1857, p. 268. 



Cathartes percnopterus, Vern. Hare. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 2nd ser, 1855, xv. p. 437. 



Common in all the Canarian group, where some i&vi pairs 

 may usually be seen flying over the towns or large villages at a 

 considerable height. I once saw fourteen together near La- 

 guna, in Teneriffe, feeding on the carcass of a dead animal ; 

 they were so gorged that they took but little notice of me, and 

 allowed me to approach quite close before they flew off. They 

 breed in the rocks in the mountains of Teneriffe, and most pro- 

 bably also in the other islands of the Canarian group. I have 

 a fine coloured egg taken from a nest in a ravine near Chasna 

 in the highland of Teneriffe; it was brought me by a country- 



