176 Resident and Migratory Birds of Madeira and the Canaries. 



seldom found near the coast in Teneriffe and Gran Canary; but 

 at an elevation of from 2000 to 8000 feet above the sea it is very 

 common. 



36. RuTiciLLA PHCENicuRA (Linn.). 



Ruticilla phoenicura, W. & B. Orn. Can. p. 15; Bolle J. fiir 

 Orn. 1854, p. 454, and 1857, p. 283. 



Also said by Berthelot to inhabit Teneriffe, where it builds in 

 the walls. 



37. Pratincola rubicola (Linn.). 

 Pratincula 7'ubicola,W. & B. Orn. Can. p. 13. 



Saxicola rubicola, Bolle, J. fiir Orn. 1854, p. 453, and 1857, 

 p. 279. 



Webb and Berthelot met with this bird at Mercedes, in Tene- 

 riffe, where, howevei', they say it is rare. I did not observe it ; 

 nor is its occurrence recorded by Vernon Harcourt in Madeira. 



38. fMoTACILLA SULPHUREA (Bechst.). 



M. hoarula, Bolle, J. fiir Orn. 1857, p. 286; Vern. Hare. 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, 1855, xv. p. 437. 



M.flava} W. & B. Orn. Can. p. 16; Bolle, J. fiir Orn. 



1854, p. 455. 



This beautiful species is exceedingly common in all three of 

 the Atlantic archipelagoes ; wherever there is a pool or stream 

 of water, a pair of them are sure to be seen, actively engaged in 

 catching the insects which abound in such localities. Webb 

 and Berthelot, and also Bolle, in his first paper on the birds 

 of the Canaries, have mistaken it for M. flava, though the latter 

 has corrected this error in his second paper, as quoted above. 



39. fANTHUS BERTHELOTI, Bollc. 



Ibis, 1862, p. 343; J. f. Orn. 1862, p. 357. 

 A. trivialis, hinn. ; W. & B. Orn. Can. p. 16; Bolle, J. fiir 

 Orn. 1854, p. 455. 



A. pratensis, A'^ern. Hare. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, 



1855, XV. p. 437. 



A. campestris, Bolle, J. fiir Orn. 1857, p. 288. 



The distinction between this species and its continental allies, 

 with which it had previously been confounded, was pointed out 

 by Dr. Bolle in ' The Ibis ' for 1862, p. 343, where he describes 



