1919] Birds of the Canary Islands. ' 489 



Bolle mentions it in his first paper (J. f. O. 1854, p. 449), 

 but later (J. f. O. 1857) he omits the species altogether. 



Savile Reid (Ibis, 1887, p. 429) recorded a bird from 

 Tenerife which he saw but did not obtain, and wrote : 

 "That the Hobby {Falco subbuteo) is occasionally found in 

 Teuerifle I am tolerably certain. 1 saw a small Falcon, 

 which I recorded at the time as of this species, on the 

 edge of the ])ine-woods above La Guancha ; and Baeza ^ 

 informed me that he had shot two during his lifetime, 

 one near the coast below Kealejo, and the other near 

 Tacoronte. He described the bird accurately, and from 

 his knowledge of the sul)ject I conclude there is no doubt 

 as to these two cases.''^ 



Cabrera notes (Catalogo, p. 32) tliat it occurs accidentally 

 in spring. 



Von Thanner records having shot a Hobby in February t 

 1903 (Nov. Zool. xi. 1904, p. 431), and observed one in the 

 following autumn (14 November, 11)03) also apparently in 

 Tenerife (Nov. Zool. xi. 1904, p. 434). The former bird 

 should be examined at the first opportunity if it has not 

 been destroyed. 



It is next mentioned by Tschusi who notes (Orn. Jahrb. 

 1903, p. 176) a specimen procured in February, apparently 

 also by von Thanner. This is obviously the same bird as 

 Thanner himself records (suj>ra) as having been shot in 

 1903. 



Range. The typical Hobby breeds in Europe generally 

 and in north-west Africa. It winters in. Africa, ranging as 

 far south as Cape Colony. Mr. Ogil vie- Grant records 



* Don Benjjiniin Baeza, a Spanisli Captain of Militia, was resident 

 in Tenerife. lie is said by Reid to have been "a fairly good 

 ornitliologi.st and taxidermist" (Ibis, 1887, p. 424). He accompanied 

 both Godman in 1871 and Savile Reid in 1887 in their ornithological 

 excursions in the island until his untimely defith in 1887. 



t Although tiie actual date is not mentioned, Thanner states that the 

 Falcon was shot on the same day as he procured Saxicola descrti (amongst 

 other birds). This specimen of S. deserti homoclvoa is in the Tring 

 Museum and was shot in the ujonth of February 1903. 



