1919-] Birds of the Canary Islands. 113 



Family Motacillid^. 



Motacilla cinerea (=;1/. boaruia auct.). Grey Waji,tail. 



[or Motacilla cinerea canariensis.] 



[Moiaci/la boaruia canariensis Hartert, Nov. Zool. viii. 

 1901, p. 322— Type locality : Tenerife.] 



A Resident subspecies. 



Hab. in Archipelayo. 



Western Group : Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Palma. 



Range beyond the Archipelago. 

 Does not occur. 



Another subspecies, M. c. schmitzi^ is found in Madeira 

 and the Azores. 



Obs. Hartert no longer keeps up this subspecies, and 

 provisionally unites it with tjq^ical M. a. cinerea, the 

 European bird (see Vog. pal. Faun. i. p. 299). I am not 

 satisfied with this decision and prefer to keep it separate, 

 and have therefore treated it in the same way as I have 

 done the Corn-Bunting — heading it binomially, and giving 

 beneath the heading the subspecific name which I think it 

 will eventually have to bear. 



Motacilla alba alba. White Wagtail. 



Motacilla alba Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 185 — 

 Type locality : Sweden. 



The White Wagtail is an irregular Winter Visitor in small 

 numbers, but a regular Bird of Passage in early spring to the 

 Canaries. 



This Wagtail has been noted in the Canary Islands by 

 Webb and Berthelot, Bolle, Meade-Waldo, Cabrera, Polatzek, 

 von Thanner, and myself. 



I do not believe that the White Wagtail leniains for long 

 in any of the islands during migration. A siimmary of the 

 records where dates have been supplied shows that it ap})ears 

 first in January and passes through in very small numbers 

 until March, after vvhicli mouth it is not usually seen until 



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