2 Mr. E. G. Meade- Waldo on some 



TURDUS MERULA. 



Blackbirds swarmed in the high forests during the winter; 

 there was a great preponderance of males. The main body 

 left about the 30th of January, and those which remained to 

 breed did not nest early. 



B,UT:CILLA PHffiNICURUS. 



I saw a male Redstart on two occasions close to my house 

 near Orotava. 



Cyanecula wolfi, 



A boy showed me two White- spotted Bluethroats which 

 he had shot near Laguna ; and as he thought a good deal of 

 them, I expect they are rare stragglers. 



Erithacus rubecula. 



The Robin of Tenerife has the red on its breast of a dark 

 reddish orange and the white of the abdomen and lower 

 part of the breast very pure, the red of the throat extending 

 a short way only. I mention this because in Gomera the 

 Robin has the breast of a pale dirty orange, the colour extend- 

 ing downwards much farther than in the Tenerife bird, and 

 the white of the breast is nowhere pure, but of a dark fawn. 

 These differences are constant. It has been stated that the 

 Redbreast of the Canary Islands belongs to the dark northern 

 form ; but my Tenerife birds are much darker and brighter 

 than ours, while the Gomera variety is much paler and gene- 

 rally duller. All ray Gomera Redbreasts have a hook to 

 the upper mandible, which is wanting in my Tenerife ones. 



MUSCICAPA GRISOLA. 



I saw one Spotted Flycatcher that had been shot in the 

 winter near Laguna. 



Serinus canarius. 



Large numbers of Canaries ascend to the high mountain- 

 woods to breed, going up about the end of April ; they were 

 only breeding in the end of May. Those which remained in 

 the valleys bred very early, and I found a nest with hard-set 

 eggs early in February. 



