474 Mr. D. A. Bannerman on the [Ibis, 



eastern islands, believed there were two distinct forms : — 

 («) a resident bird ; [h] " a somewhat smaller species, as 

 bird o£ passage, oP which some would appear to stay during 

 the winter." I consider form (A), at any rate, to be the 

 typical species. Still referring to form (h) — the bird of 

 passage — Polatzek notes : '' On the 29th of March I observed 

 the first returning from Africa, abont twenty of them, which 

 had at most been preceded by a few. From that day 

 forward I found pairs of them in localities where before 

 they had never appeared, and they remained there." 



Von Thanner, like Polatzek, recognizes two forms from 

 the Archipelago — U. e. epups and U. e.indchra of Floericke, 

 with which latter species h.e considers t/. e. fuerieventuroi 

 Polatzek to be synonymous (Orn. Jahrb. 1912, p. 225). 

 Of the typical species he writes (Orn, Jahrb. 1905, p. 60) : 

 '' To be found [in Fuerteventura] in large numbers in the 

 vicinity of the villages, where it breeds, after which the 

 majority leave the island^'; and again (Orn, Jalirb. 1910, 

 p. 89) notes : "I shot a few of these birds in the middle of 

 March 1909, and saw them in every })art of the island 

 (Gran Canaria)." 



Under the heading U. e. fuerteventune in the same paper 

 (Orn. Jahrb. 1910, pp. 89, 90), Thanner records his birds 

 from the Cliarco of Maspalomas in Gran Canaria, saying 

 that they agree closely with Polatzek's description of the 

 resident winter-breeding birds of Fuerteventura. 



In a much later paper (Orn. Jahrb. 1912, pp. 225, 226) 

 von Thanner discusses the Hoopoes at greater length. As 

 already noted, he now considers that Polatzek's U-. e. fuerte- 

 venturcB must be known as U. e. pulchra, and says that he 

 found it in the western islands, where it also appears on 

 the coasts of Gran Canaria and Tenerife, and breeds every- 

 where on the coast during the winter, when it is quite an 

 exception to find a Hoopoe in the higher districts of these 

 islands. After the nesting is finished, he says that the 

 majority of the coast (winter) birds [i. e. U. e. fuertevenfura^ 

 ov pulchra as Thanner prefers to call it] disappear from the 

 island. 



