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



the scrnb; but I eventually found a place in a barranco 

 where they used to settle in some tall trees^ and there I 

 managed to get some very good birds. They varied very 

 much in size^ ray finest cock being 17^ inches, while some 

 were only 15 inches in length. I had on this and subse- 

 quent days many opportunities of watching them. They are 

 Very active on the ground, on which a great deal of their 

 time appears to be spent, as one might gather from their 

 strong muscular thighs and legs. I only heard one bird 

 '^ coo/'' and none of those I shot proved to be nesting, very 

 unlike the C. bollii, which breeds all the winter. Their flesh 

 was capital eating and of two colours, the muscle nearest the 

 bone being white. Their food appears to be exactly the 

 same as that of C. boUii ; a few, very few, C bollii come on 

 to the C. laurivora ground. 



Three months later. May 6th, I went again to Gomei*a, my 

 object this time being to get, if possible, some young C. lauri- 

 vora alive ; Canon Tristram accompanied me on this occa- 

 sion. We found the Pigeons had only just began to breed ; 

 some had laid, and others were going to do so. I had, how- 

 ever, one dead young one brought to me. One egg only is 

 laid. In the crops of some shot were the blossoms of flax 

 and a little barley ; the Pigeons came down into the barley 

 regularly to feed. When first shot the bill of C. laurivora is 

 white, the nares being pink. The brown wings contrast with 

 the pale blue rump and iridescent green neck and head, 

 giving the bird when on the wing and flyiug below a patchy 

 appearance. These two Pigeons keep to their own domains, 

 C. bollii to the high mountain-forest, C. laurivora to the 

 scrub-covered slopes lower lown, seldom encroaching one on 

 the other. Whether C. laurivora is confined to Gomera or 

 not remains to be proved ; it certainly does not occur in Tene- 

 rife, where there is no ground really suited to its habits ; 

 but I think it will very likely be found in Palma, where I 

 intend to search for it next autumn. 



Fringilla tintillon was very abundant in Gomera, as was also 

 the Canary, the young of the year, in their brown plumage, 

 being in flocks in the valK'Vs. Tlic Utile Chilfchaft' with the 



