191 9- J Birds of the Canary Islaiuh. 303 



Cyanosylvia suecica cyaneciila. White-spotted Bluethroat. 



Sylvia cyanecula Wolf, in Meyer & Wolf, Tasclienb. 1810, 

 1). 240 — Type locality : Germany. 



This is a Rare Visitor to the Archipelago. 



The records of the White-spotled Bluethroat occurring in 

 the Canary Islands are not by any means plentiful. In 

 factj the only occurrences which seem genuine are : — 



a. Two birds seen by Meade-M'aldo which had been shot 



near Laguna (Ibis, 1889^ p. 2). These are probably 

 the male and female mentioned by Cabrera in his 

 'List' as having been shot in November 1889 

 (^Catalogo, p. 43). 



b. A single bird identified in 1913 by myself in the 



Gonzalez Collection in Arrecife. This bird had been 

 shot in the island of Lanzarote (Ibis, 1914, p. 62). 



Polatzek, who spent eight mouths iu the eastern group and 

 chronicles the arrival of many migrants, does not mention 

 any specific occasion upon which he met with this species. 

 He writes: — '"Like the Red -spotted Bluethroat this 

 species may also pass through the eastern islands'' (Orn. 

 Jahrb. 1909, p. 124). This species is there referred to as 

 C. wolfi (Brehm). 



Range. The White-spotted Bluethroat is a European 

 s[)ecies, which in winter migrates through western Europe to 

 north-west and north-east Africa. 



Saxicola dacotise dacotiae. Euerteveuturan Chat. 



Pratmcolu ddcolue Meade-Waldo, Ibis, 1889, p. oOij 

 pi. XV. — Type locality: Euerteventura. 



A Resident species. 

 Huh. in Archipelayu. 



Eastern Group : Fuerteventura. 

 Ohs. Confined to this island. 

 Range beyond the Archijjelago. 



Does not occur. 



