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



A Eesident subspecies. 

 Hah. in Arcliipelago. 



Western Group : Tenerife. 

 Obs, Confined to this island. 

 Range heyoncl the Archipelago. 



Does not occur. 



Calandrella minor polatzeki. Polatzek's Short-toed Lark. 

 CalandreJla minor polatzeki Ilartcrt, Vog. pal. Fuun. i. 

 1901, ]>. 217 — Type locality : Lanzarotc. 

 A Resident subspecies. 

 Ilab. in Archipelago. 



TFestern Group : Gran Canaria. 

 Eastern Group : Fuerteventura, Lanzarote. 

 Range beyond the Archipelago. 



Does not occur. 

 Obs. The Short-toed Lark of Gran Canaria has been 

 separated and named by Sassi C in. distincta (Orn. Jahrb. 

 1908, p. 30). 



Melanocorypha calandra calandra. Calandra Lark. 

 Alauda calandra Linn. Syst. Nat. 12th ed. 17G6, p. 288 — 

 Type locality : Pyrenees. 



A Rare Visitor. 



There is only one record of tliis species having been taken 

 in the Canary Islands. This specimen was shot at Laguna 

 and examined by Meade-Waldo, who included it in his list 

 (Ibis, 1893, p. 194). The Calandra Lark is a favoiirite cage- 

 bird in Spain ; it is therefore possible that the specimen 

 here recorded may have been an " escape.'^ 



Range. The Calandra Lark is an inhabitant of southern 

 Europe and northern Africa, where it breeds in Morocco, 

 Tunisia, and Algeria, in the last-named province occurring 

 as far south as Biskra and Laghouat (Nov. Zool. 1911, 

 p. 485). In the Tring Museum I have examined six speci- 

 mens from Mazagan, the most southern place from which 

 it has been recorded. 



