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



Hab. in Archijyelago. 



Western Group. Gran Canaria, Teuerife, Falma, (iomcra^ 

 Hierro. 

 Range beyond the Archipelago. 



Madeira. 



Phcenicurus phcenicurus phcenicurus. Common Redstart. 



Motacilla phcenicurus Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, 

 p. 187 — Type locality : Sweden. 



The Common Redstart is a fairly regular Bird of Passage 

 in small numbers to the Canary Islands in sprin-; and 

 autumn. 



Meade-Waldo's notes sum up the situation. He wrote 

 (Ibis, 1893, p. 188): "A few Redstarts touch at the 

 islands in spring and autumn"; and in an earlier paper 

 (Ibis, 1889, p. 2) remarked: "I saw a male on two 

 occasions close to ray house at Orotava.^' 



Polatzek, whose field-notes are generally reliable, quotes 

 it (Orn. Jahrb. 1909, p. 124) as a regular bird of passage. 

 Tlie following are the only dated records : — 



cJ. March, 1889. Oliva, Fuerteventura. Authority: Meade-Wahlo 



(skin in British Museum). 

 2 . 27 March, 1905. Fuerteventura. Authority : Von Thanner (Orn. 



Jahrb. 1908, p. 214). 

 J. 27 March, 1909. Gran Canaria. Authority: Von Thanner (Orn. 



Jahrb. 1910, p. 86). 

 c? . 4 April, 1913. Tenerife. Authority: IMiss Annie Jackson (in 



litt.). 

 October. Gomera. Authority : RoUe (J. f. O. 1857, p. 283). 



Cabrera had an undated specimen in his Tenerife col- 

 lection (Catalogo, p. 43), and Meade-Waldo also notes a 

 specimen brought to Ramon Gomez from Fuerteventura 

 (Ibis, 1889, p. 509). I have not handled all the specimens 

 which have been obtained in the Canary Islands, but those 

 which 1 have seen belong to the typical form. 



Range. The Common Redstart which breeds in Europe 

 winters in west and north-east Africa and is replaced by an 

 allied race in the Atlas Mountains. Hartert met with the 



