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Von Thaiiner records specimens from Tenerife on the 

 30th of Sejjtember, 1910, ''which appeared for many days'" 

 (Orn. .Tahrb. 1910. p. 229). 



Raiuje. The Spotted Flycatcher breeds throughout Europe 

 and in the Ath-is .Mountains in Morocco. It winters in 

 central and southern Africa. 



Muscicapa atricapilla atricapilla "^. Pied Flycatcher. 



Mascicapa atricapilla Linn. Syst. Nat. 12th ed. 1766, 

 p. 326 — Type locality : Sweden. 



The Pied Flycatcher is a regular Bird of Passage to the 

 Canary Islands during the spring and autumn migration. 



Webb and Berthelot (Orn. Canarienne, p. 11) and Belle 

 (J. f. Orn. 1857, p. 286j both record it before 1858, Bolle 

 noting that it is seen occasionally in Tenerife during 

 winter. 



Cabrera (Catalogo, p. 47) shot various examples near 

 Laguna m May. 



Meade-Waldo saw one at Laguna on 25 April, 1890 (Ibis, 

 1890, p. 429), and remarks that it is occasio)ially met with 

 (Ibis, 1893, p. 192), while nearly twenty years later 

 Polatzek wrote (Orn. Jahrb. 1909, p. 122): "It is a 

 regular migrant. I have often seen some in October in 

 Lanzarote. On the 14th of October, 1904, a south wind 

 succeeded a strong north-west wind, and I saw several 

 hundreds of them ; some on the walls, some on the trees 

 surrounding Haria in Lanzarote. When the north [? south] 

 wind went on the 17th of October they all flew away." 



You Thanner shot a bird on the 10th of OctoI)er, 1904, in 

 the pine-woods of Tenerife (Orn. Jahrb. 1908, p. 214), and 

 again records some from Tenerife on the 30th September, 

 1910, which birds remained in the vicinity for several days 

 (Orn. Jahrb. 1910, \). 229), and two years later noted two or 

 three birds at Granadilla (Tenerife) on tiie 3rd of September, 

 1912 (Orn. Jahrb. 1912, p. 227). 



* If Vroeg's Catalogue is accepted, the name of the Pied Flycatcher 

 must be M. hijpoleuca hypoleuca. I reject Vroeg's names (see footnote 

 under previous species). 



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