110 Mr. D. A. Bannerman on the [Ibis, 



It is first recorded by Cal)rera (Catalogo, p. 50), vlio says 

 he had a specimen which was shot at Punta del Hidalgo. 

 Unfortunately he records it under the erroneous name 

 Montifringilla nivalis Briss., which is the Snow-Finch and 

 not the Snow-Bunting'. 



Von Tlianner (Nov. Zool. 1904, p. 431), under the heading 

 Passerina nivalis, notes that there is a specimen of this bird 

 in the Instituto at Laguna^. (P. nivalis is, of course, the 

 Snow-Banting.) 



Polatzek (Orn. Jahrb. 1909, p. 127) adds that Cabrera's^ 

 bird was examined by him in the Museum at Laguna and 

 is a male of Calcarius nivalis, i. e. Plectruphena.v nivalis, the 

 Snow-Bunting. 



Range. The Snow-Bunting breeds in the Arctic regions 

 and winters as far south as the Mediterranean. It occa- 

 sionally ranges to North Africa, and has also been recorded 

 from the Azores. 



Family AlaudidtE. 



Alauda arvensis arvensis. Sky- Lark. 



Alauda arvensis Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 165 — 

 Type locality : Sweden. 



The Sky-Lark is a Winter Visitor to Tenerife in small 

 numbers, and a Bird of Passage in jijjring and autumn to 

 certain of the other islands, remaining sometimes for two 

 or three weeks ; chiefly noted on passage in the eastern 

 group, but also recorded from Gran Canaria. 



In Tenerife it occurs, according to Cabrera (Catdlogo, 

 p. 52), in the months of October, November^ and December 

 on the Laguna plains, where Meade-Waldo saw one which 

 he failed to procure on tl>e 3rd of December, and shot 

 one on the 5th of December, 1888 (see his MS. diaries) ; 

 this last I have examined in the British Museum. , Meade- 

 Waldo found it to be not rare in winter on the Laguna 

 plains (Ibis, 1889, p. 515 ; 1893, p. 194). 



* After his death, Cabrera's collection was housed in the Instituto 

 of Laguna. 



