96 Mr. F. Du Cane Godman on the Birds of the Azores. 
greira,” a term given to the Redbreast in St. MichaeFs. It is 
much prized by the Portuguese, who are fond of keeping it 
as a cage-bird. 
Regulus cristatus (Linnseus). “ Estrellinha.” 
Frequents chiefly the junipers (,Juniperus oxycedrus) and tree 
heaths [Erica azorica) in the mountains, and is but seldom seen 
in the gardens or lower country. I have compared my examples 
with British and South European specimens, and find that the 
former are rather stouter and stronger in the beak and legs, and 
also somewhat longer in the tail. Mr. Gould showed me a 
Golden-crested Wren from Eastern Asia which agrees with my 
Azorean bird in all respects. 
Saxicola cenanthe (Linnseus). 
I shot a single example of the Wheatear in Flores, after a 
strong gale of wind, and I at first believed it was a straggler 
from the continent; but I afterwards found four or five pairs in 
the old crater on Corvo, which had bred there, as I saw young 
birds that could scarcely fly. The inhabitants have no name 
for this bird, and I did not meet with any one who knew it; so 
I believe it to be a recent settler. 
Motacilla sulphurea, Bechstein. “ Alveola ” or “ Lavan- 
diera.” 
Common, wherever there is water, throughout all the islands. 
I have compared it with European specimens, with which it 
agrees well, with the exception of the tail being rather shorter. 
Mr. Gould, however, showed me some examples from Eastern 
Asia which in this respect are exactly the same as the Azorean 
bird. It is resident the whole year. 
fPLECTROPHANEs nivalis (Linnseus). 
A flock of about twenty of these birds appeared last winter 
in the island of Corvo. They were said to have been much 
exhausted when they arrived, and several were caught and kept 
(Zool. Journ. v. pp. 75-79) as occurring in Madeira, where a similar story 
is also told concerning its origin. It was subsequently described by Sir 
W. Jardine (Edinb. Journ. Nat. & Greog. Science, Jan. 1830, i. p. 243), 
and figured by him and Mr. Selby in their 1 Illustrations of Ornithology,’ 
pi. 94, under the name of Ourrucct heinekeni .— Ed.] 
