THE IBIS. 



SIXTH SERIES. 



No. I. JANUARY 1889. 



I. — Notes on some Birds of the Canary Islands, 

 By E. G. Meade-Waldo. 



Being obliged to spend some months in the Canary Islands 

 last winter^ I devoted myself almost entirely to observing 

 and making a small collection of the birds. I landed in 

 Tenerife early in October and left again in June ; so I saw 

 something of both the autumn and spring migrations. In 

 February I went to the island of Gomera, to which I paid 

 another short visit in May, while parts of March and April 

 I spent in Fuerteventura. Of the birds of Tenerife so 

 much has already been written by Mr. Godman and Capt. 

 Savile Reid, that I shall only contribute a few remarks on 

 the habits of some of the species, and notice several additions 

 to the migrants, 



TUUDUS MUSICUS. 



The Song Thrush was abundant in the winter in the high 

 woods and wherever there was sufficient covert ; a few came 

 down to within 1500 feet of the sea; they were always 

 remarkably wild, 



TURDUS PILARIS. 



I saw a Fieldfare which had been shot on the 19th of March 

 close to Orotava. 



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