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



Range. The Wigeon is widely distributed over Europe 

 and Asia, and in winter is found in Africa as far as 

 Abyssinia on the east coast. It does not appear to have 

 been recorded from western Africa south of the Canary 

 Islands. It ranges in the west to Alaska and eastwards to 

 the Sunda Islands. 



Spatula clypeata. Shoveler. 



Anas clypeata Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 124 — 

 Type locality : Sweden. 



The Shoveler is a Rare Visitor, which lias been obtained 

 certainly on one and probably on more occasions in the 

 islands. 



Meade-Waldo shot a female on one of the water-tanks 

 near Oi'otava on the 18tli of November, 1890 (Ibis, 1893, 

 p. 199 and MS. note-books). The skin of this bird is now 

 in the British Museunj., where I have examined it. 



Cabrera also mentions that he obtained it in Tenerife 

 (Catalogo, p. 68). 



Range. The Shoveler has an extensive distribution in the 

 Palrearctic Region and a circumpolar breeding-range. It 

 also breeds in North America. In winter it extends in 

 Africa to Somaliland on the east and Senegambia on the 

 west coast. 



Nyroca nyroca. White-eyed Pochard. 



Anas nyroca Giildenstadt, Nov. Comra. Petrop. xiv. pt. 1, 

 1770, p. 403— Type locality : S. Russia. 



The White-eyed Pochard is a Rare Visitor to the Canary 

 Islands. 



Webb and Berthelot say that this duck is of accidental 

 occurrence, and arrives sometimes in winter. They record 

 two specimens which were killed in November 1829 on 

 the beach of the Isleta in Gran Canaria (Orn. Canarienne, 

 p. 46). 



The above seems to be the only definite record concerning 

 the White-eyed Pochard in the Canary Islands. The species 

 is mentioned by Bolle (J. f. O. 1855, p. 179) as a " bird of 



