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specimens, was very common and more generally distributed 

 than Fringilla tintillon, being found from about 1500 feet right 

 through the chestnut-woods, laurel-woods, and into the pine- 

 forests. I could distinguish a difference in its call-note and 

 also in the song of the male, but it is very difficult to put in 

 writing. Fringilla tintillon says chee-wut chee-weet, the Palma 

 bird che-weet che-wit. I wrote this down at the time, so I 

 think it is right. The song is decidedly different, but I 

 cannot attempt to put it into words. The female of this 

 Chaffinch is much lighter coloured, with much less green on 

 the back than F. tintillon *. 



The day following I went out alone, and after shooting 

 several of the new Chaffinch and some Robins, which were of 

 the pale colour of the Gomera Robin, but had the colour on 

 the breast less extended, I had the luck to fall in with a 

 beautiful Tit, quite different from Parus teneriffce. I heard 

 its voice first, and at once thought it was something new, and 

 after some trouble, for it was in exceedingly thick laurels on 

 an almost perpendicular barranco-side, I shot it, and picked 

 up a Tit like Parus teneriffce, only larger, and with the whole 

 of the underparts white. On comparing it with Parus tene- 

 riffce I find it has a considerably longer tail and longer tarsi, 

 and invariably white tips to its wing-coverts, but less white 

 on the wing-coverts than the Fuerteventura Tit. The young 

 of Parus teneriffce in first plumage has buff tips to its wing- 

 coverts and no white on the head, the cheeks and forehead 

 being yellow, the black on the throat and neck being hardly 

 discernible; the back, instead of being blue, is green, as in 

 Parus cceruleus. The first and last Palma Tits I killed were 

 the only two I saw in the laurel-woods. I never saw any, or 

 heard them, with these exceptions out of the pines, and I 



* [This Chaffinch, has been described by Canon Tristram (Ann. & Mag. 

 N. H. ser. 6, iii. p. 489) as Fringilla palnus, and by Dr. A. Konig (J. f. O. 

 1889, p, 182) as Fringilla ccerulesceiis. Dr. A. Konig has also separated 

 the Robin of TeuerifFe (c/. Meade- Waldo, supra, p. 2, and infi-c), p. 51G) 

 as Erithacus superhus (J. f. 0. 1889, p. 183). The number of the Journ. 

 f. Ornith. in which these names are given is dated April 1889, but does 

 not appear to have been issued until August 1889. We beheve, there- 

 fore, that Canon Tristram's name for the Fringilla has priority. — Ed.J 



