512 Mr. E. G. Meade-Waldo on the 





think there is no doubt but that the pines are their home : 

 they are common enough in the pine-forests. I looked care- 

 fully about all villages, gardens, chestnut-woods, and in all 

 such places as Parus teneriff(S frequents, but saw none. They 

 had bred very early, and had young on the wing on April 

 16th^ even up at an elevation of 5000 feet. At the present 

 time, June 22nd, Parus teyieriffce had only just laid or is 

 laying in the pines of Tenerife, in the valleys, however, the 

 young have been on the wing some time. So, at similar 

 elevations, the Palma Tit had bred two months earlier than 

 the Tenerife Tit — not in one instance only, for I saw three 

 broods of young flying. Three or four seemed the number 

 of young in each instance, and Parus teneriffce is much less 

 prolific than our little Blue Tit, as I find five to be its full 

 clutch, and four eggs are as frequently laid as five, and in 

 the high mountains three only are not uncommon. The 

 Palma Tit I consider to be a good new species, and propose 

 to call it 



Parus palmensis. (Plate XVI.) 



Par2is palinensis, Meade-Waldo, Ann. &Mag. N. H. ser. 6, 

 iii. p. 490. 



P. ^ . Par. teneriffce similis, sed difi'ert pectore et abdoraine 

 pure albis, nee flavis, sine linea nigra; statura majore; 

 Cauda et tarsis longioribus. 

 $ mari similis. 



Long. tot. 5 poll., alse 2*45, caudae 2'3, tarsi 'So-'O (caudse 

 P. teneriffce 2'1, tarsi •7--75). 

 Hab. The Pine-forests of the Island of Palma. 



The Goldcrest is abundant in La Palma, and is the same as 

 the Tenerife and Gomera Regulus. Canon Tristram tells me 

 he considers it different from Regulus cristatus, but I have no 

 R. cristatus to compare with it out here. W^hen in England 

 last summer I was unable to find any appreciable difi'erences. 

 The nest and eggs are identical with R. cristatus, and placed 

 either in tree-heath or pine, but only four or five eggs are 

 laid. In a large number of nests I have never found more 

 than five, often four, and sometimes only three ; these were 

 the full clutches, the birds in each instance having com- 



