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the British Museum^ presented by Sir R. Schomburgk, who, 

 however, did not include it in his list of the birds of that 

 island. 



-f 80. Stercorarius crepidatus (Gmel.). 



An example of this species was brought to me alive on the 

 10th of July, 1888. I recorded the circumstance in ' The 

 Zoologist ' for 1888, p. 350. 

 -J- 81. PuFFiNus AUDUBONi, Finsch. 



A short notice of the breeding of this species has already 

 been contributed to this Journal [vide 'The Ibis,' 1888, p. 60). 

 It may be considered as a resident species, for on visiting the 

 bird-rock in October several were captured in holes. It bred 

 in considerable numbers this year, and the eggs were deeply 

 incubated by the end of March. 

 -^ 82. PoDicEPs DOMiNicus (Lath.). 



Schomburgk includes this species in his list of the Birds 

 of Barbados. Undoubtedly one species of Grebe, if not 

 more, visits the island in autumn and winter. I did not 

 procure a specimen, but the description given me of a bird 

 seen at Chancery Lane in 1887 undoubtedly referred to a 

 Grebe. 



XLV. — Further Notes on the Birds of the Canary Islands^. 

 By E. G. Meade-Waldo. 



(Plates XV., XVI.) 



In the middle of February of this year I paid another visit 

 to the Island of Fuerteventura, meeting by chance in Las 

 Palmas a kindred spirit, Dr. Percy Kendall, of Gambia, who 

 accompanied me. A fortnight later Canon Tristram, whom I 

 had not expected to see, arrived. My principal objects in 

 this visit were to observe the habits of the Chat which I had 

 procured the previous year, to have another good look at the 

 Cream-coloured Courser and Houbara Bustard on their 

 breeding-grounds, and to get living specimens of as many 

 species as I could. This I failed in, being too early for young 



* See above, p. 1. 



