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



1872, p, 166), wrote that lie frequently watched a pair of 

 these birds near Orotava, and added : " I have no doubt 

 about the species'^ [^^ Haliaetus albiciUa" (Linn.)]. 



Another apparently genuine record by a reliable orni- 

 thologist is given by Tristram [cf. Meade- Waldo, Ibis, 1893, 

 p. 185), who "observed and recognised beyond a doubt '^ the 

 White-tailed Eagle on the beach near Arrecife, Lanzarote. 

 Tristram visited Lanzarote in April 1890. 



Cabrera (Catalogo, p. 30) observed three examples appa- 

 rently all in Tenerife, while 1 myself saw an Eagle believed 

 to be H. albicilla on the 23rd of December, 1908, while 

 riding over the hills fiom San Mateo to Teror in Gran 

 Canaria (Ibis, 1912, p. 587). 



It is worthy of note that Meade-Waldo wrote (Ibis, 1889, 

 p. 4) under Aquila sp. inc. : — "I saw several Eagles during 

 November and early in December, but never near enough 

 to be sure of the species." 



It is quite probable that the White-tailed Eagle occurs 

 occasionally in the islands in winter when it visits Africa 

 from its breeding-quarters in the north. It has been 

 recorded from the Azores. 



Range. The White-tailed Eagle Ijreeds in many parts of 

 Europe and in winter visits northern Fiance. 



Accipiter nisus *. Sparrow-IIawk. 

 [Accipiter nisus teneriffse.]' 



SAccip'iler nisus teneriffce Laubmann, Verb. Orn. Ges. 

 Bayern, xi. 1912, p. 116 — Type locality: Tenerife.] 

 A Resident subspecies. 

 Hab. in Archipelago . 



Western Group : Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Palma. 



Eastern Group : Fuerteventura, Lanzarote. 



* I have not yet made up my mind to which race this Sparrow-Haw^k 

 should be referred. Laubmann has described the bird from Tenerife, 

 .and so I provisionally use his name for the bird dealt with here. 

 Dr. Ilartert cannot separate the Canarian bird from A. n. granti, the 

 Madeiran form described by Sharpe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, 

 vol. V. p. 485. 



