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



(Edemia nigra nigra. Common Scoter. 



Anas nigra Linn. Syst. Nat. lOtli ed. 1758, p. 123 — IVpe 

 locality: England. 



A Rare Visitor to tlie Canary Islands. 



The Common Scoter has not been observed for many years. 



Bolle wrote of this species : " A regular visitor to Canaria 

 (f. e. Grand Canary), where it frequents the irrigation ponds 

 and is well known to sportsmen." He handled specimens 

 in the Leon collection, and includes it as a more or less 

 regular winter visitor (J. f. O. 1857, p. 348). 



Cabrera (Catiilogo, p. 69) and Polatzek both cite the bird 

 in their lists, and I agree with the latter author who remarks 

 that it is doubtful whether the Common Scoter is found still 

 under the present conditions (Orii. Jahrb. 1909, p. 132). 



Range. The Common Scoter breeds in north Europe and 

 Asia, and in winter visits the Atlantic shores and Mediter- 

 ranean, extending as far south as the Azores and coasts of 

 north-west Africa, where it is said to be very common. 



Family Phcenicopterid^. 



Phcenicopterus antiquorum. Flamingo. 



Phcenicupterus untiquoriua Terara. Man. d^Orn. 2nd ed. ii. 

 1820, p. 587 — Type locality : Europe. 



The Flamingo is almost certainly a Rare Visitor to the 

 Eastern Canary Group. 



There can be no mistaking such a conspicuous species, 

 and it certainly appears to have occurred. The only evidence 

 of the occurrence of this species in the Canary Islands is 

 given by (1) Bolle who, in his last paper, wrote that he had 

 seen in the Leon collection in Gran Canaria a specimen of 

 the Flamingo which had been killed in that island (J. f. O. 

 1857, p. 339); (2) Meade-Waldo, who discovered the remains 

 of a dead Flamingo in the island of ? Fuerteveiitura, and 

 remarked that it seemed well-known to the fishermen on the 

 eastern islands (Ibis, 1893, p. 199). 



When encamped in 1913 near the Lago Jauurio, a salt 

 lake on the south-west coast of Lanzarote, the fishermen 



