8-14 Mr. D. A. Bannerman on the [Ibis, 



The Birds included in Ajjpendix B number 55, as 

 follows : — 



Pastor roseiis. Rose-coloured Pastor. 



Mentioned as a possible Rare Visitor to the Eastern 

 Canaries by Bolle (J. f. O. 1857, ]>. 267). The bird lias 

 never been known to occur. 



Spinus spinus. Siskin. 



It is obvious that the Siskin should never have been 

 included in the Canarian Avifauna. 



Fringilla spinus Linn, is first mentioned by Ledru 

 (Voyage aux iles de Teneriffe, vol. i. 1810, p. 181), and 

 next by AVebb & Berthelot (Orn. Canarienne, p. 23) in 

 their lists from Tenerife. 



Bolle, in his first paper (J. f. O. 1854, p. 459), says that 

 the Siskin nests in tlie pine woods and distinguishes it 

 from the Canary (Serinus canarius). In his next paper 

 Bolle (J. f. O. 1857, p. 317) corrects this statement and 

 notes tliat Chrisomitris spinus Boie is certainly only a rare 

 visitor to the islands now that the Elder-tree is no more. 

 Bolle continues that in a letter to him Berthelot "acknow- 

 ledged openly that he knew^ very little about the Siskin 

 as a Canarian bird, but thought he had brought back a 

 skin Avith hin\ to' Paris." Bolle points out that Bertiielot 

 had very little to do with the ' Ornithologie Canarienne,' 

 which was written by Moquin-Tandon from Berthelot's 

 notes. 



Mompo includes this species in his ' Catulogo de las 

 Aves de Tenerife' (1876), p. 251. 



" Chrisomitris spinus" is also cited by Cabrera (Catalogo, 

 p. 50), whose remark that it is an accidental migrant is 

 doubtless based on the evidence of the writers mentioned 

 above, for he notes that the bird is included by Mompo ; 

 and, after noting that it nests in the pines, remarks that it is 

 a very rare biixl of passage and that the only specimen which 

 he saw was caught in January 1873 and appeared to be a 

 vouu"" male. 



