1919-] Birds of the Canary Islands. 723 



Polatzek apparently did not see any during his residence 

 in the islands ; but von Thanner saw one on the 16th of 

 March, 1905, in Fuerteventura (apparently near Jandia), 

 which is the last record I have o£ its occurrence (Orn, 

 Jahrb. 1908, p. 214). 



Range. The White Stork breeds in Europe, Asia, and in 

 Africa, where it is found from Morocco to the Gold Coast, 

 Vyinterinof in southern and central Africa. 



Family Plataleid^. 



Platalea leucovodia. Spoonbill. 



Plutalca lencorodia Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 139 

 — Type locality : Sweden. 



The Spoonbill is an Occasional Visitor. 



It was noted by Webb and Berthelot in 1841 as appearing 

 in the ivinter after a gale, never in any numbers and never 

 remaining for long. They record one which alighted near 

 Santa Cruz, Tenerife, in the winter of 1826 (Orn. Canarienne, 

 p. 37). 



Bolle wrote that the Spoonbill was only a migratory bird, 

 but as such came frequently to the Canary Islands. He 

 remarks that it was often killed in Gran Canaria, where the 

 steward of the Cond('' de Vega Grande often noticed them at 

 the ponds of Arguineguin (J, f. O. 1857, p. 339). Bolle never 

 saw the bird himself, 



Viera records it from the same district in his Dictionario. 



Meade-Waldo noted that the bird had been killed in 

 Tenerife. and was told that in Fuerteventura it visited the 

 shores in small flocks, especially the coast by Toston (Ibis, 

 1893, p. 199). 



Cabrera saw three specimens which had heen caught in 

 Tenerife (Catalogo, p. 63). 



I have identified two specimens which have not been 

 mentioned by anyone else : — 



A bird in the Las Pahnas Museum labelled " Puerto de 

 Luz, 21st October, 1880"' {vide Ibis, 1912, p. 627), and 



