.'>0<S Mr. D. A. Haimormau <m the [Ibis. 



tliat he liad a spcoinuMi in liis colleciiou (Catalogo. 1893. 

 p. 40). 



Between 1893 and 1907 no birds were recorded, but we 

 tlieu Hud two reeords wbieb may eitber reFer to tbis or to tbe 

 typieal tbrni. Apparently tbe eollector (von Tbanner) was 

 not certain to wbicli Torm bis birds sbonld be referred, as in 

 tlie Orn. Jalirb. 1909. p. 149, be records 'an immature male 

 example ot" " Sa.rico/a (vnantlw '' as bavinji; been killed in 

 Tenerife by bimseU' on tbe 28tb of Se[)tember, 1908. 



Witli regard to tbe next specimen, wliicli von Tbanner 

 shot on tbe 25tb of .Marcli, 1913, in Fuerteventura, he bad 

 evidently no doubt as to wbieh form it belouged to, as he 

 reeords it as '' (Enanthc oenanthe cenaitthe/' tbe Common 

 Wbeatear (Orn. Jabrb. 1912, p. 226), and tbis bird 1 bave 

 already recorded under tliat beading in tbis pajjcr (see 

 preceding species). 



Again, in tbe sanu' paper (Orn. Jabrb. 1912, p. 227), 

 von Tbanner mentions a bird at Vilatlor (Tenerife) on tbe 

 27th of September, 1912, wbieb be records simply as 

 ' ' SocC i c hi «' iianf li e '" * . 



Polatzek presumably never met with it, as be omits it 

 from his list entirely. 



I have carefully examined tbe material in tbe British and 

 Tring Museums with a view to fixing definitely the race of 

 the Wbeatear which passes tbrough tbe islands. It may 

 therefore be of interest to enumerate the specimens of tlie 

 large race which 1 bave examined from west Africa or the 

 Atlantic islands. 



In tlie first place, it nnist be remembered that Gmelin 

 described tbis Wbeat(>ar from west Africa, tlie type locality 

 being Senegal. 



* From the above three records, L couchide that von Thanner 

 difltereiitiates between the two forms : the first he might be unable to 

 name for certain as it is a yonng bird, the second he has no doubts 

 about and names trinomially, but is not certain of the identification of 

 the third and so rightly names it binouiially. Possibly tlu^ last-named 

 specimen was not actually procured. 



