434 Mr. E. G. Meade- Waldo on the 



the laurels, and apparently never frequenting villages and 

 gardens, as does Parus tenerifte in the three islands which it 

 frequents. 



Parus ombriosus resembles Parus tenerifa in all its ways, 

 except that it lives only in the pine-forest, and occasionally 

 in the tree-heaths and laurels. 



In Hierro the Goldcrest {Regulus tenerifce, Seebohm) is 

 common in the pines and heath-forest. It is of the same 

 form that is common to all the Canary Islands where Gold- 

 crests exist, and has the black sides to the crest joined across 

 the forehead, as in R. ignicapillus. It appears that some Gold- 

 crests from other parts have the same feature, especially those 

 from China, but in my large series from all the Canary Islands 

 I find no variation in this respect. 



The Chaffinch is not very numerous. It is intermediate 

 between Fringilla tintillon and F. palma, having a little green 

 over the tail, and the breast of a dirty, not pure, white, as in 

 F. palma. Grand Canary, Tenerife, and Gomera have the same 

 Chaffinch (F. tintillon), the adult male of which has a pure 

 buff breast, a dark-slate back, and a green rump. La Palma 

 has its Chaffinch, with no green on the rump and very little 

 green on the wings, a white breast, and the slate-blue of the 

 head is paler than in F. tintillon. It is interesting to note 

 that in the three islands where the Chaffinch is the same the 

 Tit is also the same, and where the Chaffinch is different, as 

 in Palma, both have white breasts ; this, however, does not 

 apply to Hierro, where both are different. I noticed that in 

 Palma F. palma ranged right through the pine-forest, as does 

 F. teydea in Tenerife. A pair that we have in our aviary, 

 on being given seeds of Pinus canariensis are as eager for 

 them as F. teydea, while F. tintillon, in the same aviary, 

 takes little or no notice of them. 



The Robin of Hierro is the same as that of Palma, and 

 has a pale-coloured breast ; it is, however, much more 

 generally distributed about the island than in the rest of the 

 Canaries, and was common in the thickets of fig-trees in the 

 town of Valverde ; it was most remarkably shy. 



There is no Laurel Pigeon in Hierro. At the first glance 



