168 Mr. F. Du Cane Godman un the Resident and 



consequently seldom seen. I procured a very young specimen 

 in Fayal, one of the Azores, and I also saw an adult bird that 

 had been killed in the forest of Taganana in Teneriffe. It is 

 also occasionally found in Madeira^ where it probably breeds. 

 I saw a stuffed bird of this species at Funchal. It had been 

 killed in the island. 



11. fSTRix FLAMMEA, Linn, 



Strix flamrnea, W. & B. Orn. Can. p. 8; BoUe, J. fiir Orn. 

 1854, p. 450, and 1857, p. 274 ; Veru. Hare. Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. ser. 2, 1855, xv. p. 437. 



Like the preceding species, the Barn-Owl is thinly scattered 

 throughout the three Atlantic groups of islands. Examples I 

 have seen from the Azores and Canaries are rather darker-coloured 

 than continental specimens, but in other respects they do not 

 differ. 



12. tFicus MAJOR, Linn. 



Picus major, W. & B. Orn. Can. p. 26; Bolle, J. fiir Orn. 

 1854, p. 462. 



Picus numidicus?, Bolle, J. fiir Orn. 1857, p. 320. 



This Woodpecker is tolerably common amongst the pine 

 forests of Teneriffe in the high mountains. I also saw several 

 in the retama bushes in the Canadas. Bolle says that P. 

 numidicus is probably the Canarian species, and not P. major. 

 I procured a few specimens from near Chasna (the locality 

 where he mentions having seen it) which undoubtedly are iden- 

 tical with the northern race. It also inhabits Gran Canary and 

 Palma, and possibly some of the other islands of the group. 

 This widely distributed species is not mentioned by Vernon 

 Harcourt as occurring in Madeix'a; and if Mr. Brewer was not 

 mistaken, P. minor is the only Woodpecker found in the Azores ; 

 but I think it more than possible he may have mistaken the 

 lesser for the greater species. 



P. numidicus, to which species Dr. Bolle seems inclined to 

 refer the Canarian bird, has a conspicuous red pectoral band, 

 rendering it easily distinguishable from P. major. There can be 

 no doubt that the Woodpecker I am now mentioning belongs 

 to the latter species, though the contrary might be surmised from 



