1919-] Birds of the Canary Islands. 483. 



Hab. in Archipelagu. 



Western Group : Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Palma, 



Gomera, Hierro. 

 Eastern Group * : Fuerteventiira, Lanzarote. 

 Outer islets : Allegrauza. 

 Obs. The Little Buzzard appears from my own observa- 

 tions to have now deserted the small islet of Graciosa 

 (Ibis, 1914, p. 65), where Meade- Waldo found it in 

 April 1890 (Ibis, 1890, p. 437). 

 Range beyond the Archipelago. 

 Azores Archipelago. 



Haliaetus albicilla. White-tailed Eagle. 



Falco albicilla Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 89 — 

 Type locality : Sweden. 



This is a Rare Visitor to the Canary Islands. 



The White-tailed Eagle has been recorded on four or 

 possibly five occasions, but in no single instaiice has the 

 bird been obtained. This is not surprising, as a wandering 

 Eagle is not the easiest bird in the woild to approach. 



Early writers seem to have confused Haliaetus albicilla 

 with Pandion haliaetus, and thus what I believe to be the 

 Osprey has erroneously been recorded as the White-tailed 

 Eagle from the island of Lobos by Bolle (J. f. O. 1854, 

 p. 449). 



Webb and Berthelot probably fell into the same error. 

 They distinctly note (Orn. Canarienne, p. 6) that they 

 never actually met with the bird themselves, but include 

 the species on the word of others as inhabiting Lanzarote 

 and Fuerteventura. On the other hand, they received tlie 

 foot of an Eagle which had been killed in Lanzarote and 

 which they identified as belonging to H. albicilla. 



Godman t, ^vho also omits the Osprey from his list (Ibis, 



* Polatzek described and separated the Buzzard of the eastern group 

 (Type locality Lanzarote) under the name Bideo buteo lanzarote<e (Orn, 

 Jabrb. 1908, p. 113), but I do not recognize this supposed race. 



t Godman undoubtedly knew tlie difference between the Osprey ai^d 

 the Sea-Eagle. His identification is tlierefore more than likely to have 

 been correct. 



