306 Mr. D. A. Bannennan on the [Ibis, 



therefore to be expected. I have examined skins from the 

 Gold Coast obtained in October and November, from 

 Senegal in Marcli, September, October, and December, 

 from Sierra Leone in March and April, from Morocco 

 (Mazagan and Rahamua) in September, October, and May. 

 and a bird obtained in Mogador on 5th November, all 

 l)y Riggenbach (skins in Tring Museum), while Geyr von 

 Schweppenburg met with it as far south as Ain Taiba in 

 January, almost on the same parallel as ]\Iogador. 



QEnanthe oenanthe oenanthe. The Wheatear, 

 Motacilla u&nanthe Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 186 

 — Type locality : Sweden. 



From the actual records which we possess it is doubtful 

 whether the typical Wheatear can yet be considered more 

 than a Rare Visitor to the Canary Islands. I believe, 

 however, it will eventually prove to be at any rate an 

 occasional visitor. 



Unfortunately all the older writers have failed to distin- 

 guish between this and the Greenland Wheatear, and it is 

 therefore impossil)le to be certain to wiiicli form their 

 records and remarks belong. 



I have carefully examined a great many skins in the 

 British and Tring Museunis of this and the larger race, 

 and have hut little doubt that the majority of records of 

 " Suxicola cenanthe '' from the Canary Islands should right- 

 fully belong to (J'Jnanthe wiiaiitke leacorrhua. I have there- 

 fore included them under binomial nomenclature (see next 

 species) and indicated at the same time that I believe 

 (E, oe. leucorvhua is the race to which they should refer. 



There is, however, one very definite record of the typical 

 form : — 



Von Thanner wrote in the Orn. Jahrb. 1912, p. 226 that 

 he had shot a male example of " (Enanthe cenanthe cenayitJie'^ 

 in Fuerteventura on the 25tJi of March, 1912. 



It is possible that an immature male killed in Tenerife on 

 the 28th of September, 1908, and recorded by von Tiiauner 



