302 Mr. D, A. Bannermau on the [Ibis, 



Von Thanner saw it on two occasions : — 



(a) On the l'3rd of March, 1904, at Graii Tarajal, Fuerteventura 



(Oru. Jahrb. 1905, p. 65). 

 {h) On the 14th of March, 1905, also in Fuerteventura (Orn. Jahrb. 



1908, p. 214). 



I have no hesitation in accepting the statements of 

 Polatzek and von Thanner that what they took to be the 

 Continental Redbreast was seen by them in Fuerteventura. 



Ran(je. The Continental Redbreast (E. r. rubecula) breeds 

 in Europe and winters in the Mediterranean countries and 

 in northern Africa as far as the Oases in the Sahara. Type 

 locahty : Sweden. 



Witherby's Redbreast {E. r. ivitherbyi) is a resident form 

 in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and also breeds in 

 Tunisia and northern Algeria. Type locality: northern 

 Algeria. 



Cyanosylvia suecica suecica *. Red-spotted Blue-throat. 



Motacilla svecica Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 187 — 

 Type locality : Sweden. 



A Eare Visitor. 



The first specimen of C. s. suecica is recorded by Cabi'era 

 (Catalogo, 1893, p. 13), avIio killed a bird of this species in 

 October at Laguna (Tenerife). 



Polatzek gives it in hi.s List (Orn. Jahrb. 1909, p. 124) 

 as a rare bird of passage occurring in the eastern islands 

 {i.e., Fuerteventura and Lanzarote). 



Range. The Red-spotted Bluethroat breeds in northern' 

 Europe and Asia. It winters partly in north-east Africa. 

 Its occurrence in the Canary Islands cannot therefore be 

 expected, save as a straggler. 



* I am following the Committee who compiled the ' 13. 0. U. List of 

 British Birds ' in not separating the typical Red-spotted Blue-throat 

 and tlie Norwegian Bluethroat, C s. yaetkei (Kleinschm.). Those 

 ■who distinguish between the two supposed forms would doubtless find 

 that it is C. s. gaetkel which occurs as a Eare Visitor in the Canaries 

 (cf. B. 0. U. List of British Birds, 1915, p. 308). I have not examined 

 a specimen from the Canary Islands. 



