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admirable system is continued, become extremely rich, not only 

 in home specimens, but in the productions of the Portuguese 

 foreign possessions and of the Brazils. 



I should add that, since my return to England, I have sub- 

 mitted the small collection of Portuguese birds which I had 

 time to preserve to Mr. Tristram ; and as I have his permission 

 to quote his remarks upon them, I shall freely do so, inasmuch 

 as I am quite sure that the brief comments of such a master 

 in ornithology will be of more real value than all my obser- 

 vations. 



I now proceed to enumerate the several species I have seen in 

 Portugal, distinguishing the degrees in which I have identified 

 them by the following marks : (1) those I have met with alive 

 and wild, in my rambles through the country, and those which 

 I have met with in the markets in the flesh, about which there 

 can be no reasonable doubt that they are Portuguese specimens, 

 are marked "^ ; and (2) those which I have verified in the 

 Museum at Lisbon, whose respective pedestals bear the name of 

 the locality whence they were procured, and for whose authen- 

 ticity and claims as genuine Portuguese birds I have the ample 

 assurance of M. du Bocage, are marked f. There are, of course, 

 many other species not included in this list, though undoubtedly 

 belonging to the country, but which I did not happen to meet 

 with, and of which the museums did not possess a Portuguese 

 specimen. Many such are included in the catalogue of Pro- 

 fessor du Bocage mentioned above ; but as my remarks do not 

 profess to extend beyond what I myself saw, they have manifestly 

 no place in this list. Incidentally, however, I have called atten- 

 tion to the more prominent amongst them. I append the Por- 

 tuguese name wherever I have been able to ascertain it ; and it 

 will be at once apparent how little knowledge the natives possess 

 of ornithology, from the indiscriminate use of the same name 

 applied to several species, which in many instances vary widely 

 in size, form, and colour. 



1. *VuLTUK FULVus, Gmcl. Griffbn-Vulture. " Griffo." 

 Said to be common in the southern districts, and seen by me 

 on several occasions in the plains of Alcmtejo. 



