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nests in some remote orchards (Orni Jalirb. xix. 1908, 

 pp. 101-102). 



Page 599. Mr. Bannerman was unfortunate in not 

 meeting with the Tenerifian Redbreast in the pine forests. 

 I found this bird not uncommon in the Pinar and breeding 

 in three or four places near the Cueva de las Ninas. In 

 the north of the island they are also common in suitable 

 spots. 



Page 601. With regard to Sylvia melanocephala, I must 

 repeat that this bird is common everywhere in the south 

 of Gran Canaria ; they were numerous above Maspalomas 

 and between the Puerto and village of Mogan. 



On page 603 the author remarks, " Herr von Thanner 

 mentions (Orn. Jahrb. xxi. p. 95) that there are no ChifF- 

 chaffs in the Pinar." This is a wrong quotation, which 

 Mr. Bannerman has been kind enough to inform me was due 

 to this remark in my paper having been wrongly translated 

 for him. I wrote: ''there are hardly any.'^ The only 

 spots where this bird is plentiful are near the escobon 

 {Cytisus 2)roliferus), whence they may enter into the sur- 

 rounding Pinar. Near the "Charco" I collected a number 

 of ChifFchaifs with light plumage and yellow tail-feathers. 

 I sent these birds to Professor Dr. A. Koenig and have 

 received a communication on the subject from Dr. Le Roi, 

 in which he says that this paleness is due to use alone and 

 that they do not constitute a distinct subspecies. 



Mr. Bannerman has attacked me for shooting seventy-six 

 examples of Frwgilla teydea polatzeki (pages 615-6). I have 

 been told that this same gehtleman offered the forest guards 

 five pesetas apiece if they would procure for him some 

 examples of this very bird ; this surprised me not a little ! 

 The same incident has occurred with regard to Mr. Ogilvie- 

 Grant over the Bullfinch of the Azores : Mr. Ogilvie-Grant 

 gave his reasons for shooting specimens of this Bullfinch in 

 the 'Novitates Zoologicte,' vol. xii. 1905, p. 127. For these 

 same reasons as were given by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, I myself 

 felt no compunction in securing such specimens as I met 



