1919-] Birds of 1 he Canunj Islands, 725 



Chlamydotis undxilata fuerteventurae. Fuerteventurau 



Bustard. 

 Otis undulata fuerteventiir(S Rothsch. & Hart. Nov. Zool. i. 

 1894, p. 689 — Type locality : Fuerteventura. 

 A Resident subspecies. 

 Hab. hi Archipelago, 



Eastern Group : Fuerteventura, Lanzarote. 

 Obs. It is a rare breeding bird in Lanzarote and used to 

 occur on the south-eastern plains of Gran Canaria as a visitor. 

 It has not been noted in the latter island for many years. 

 Range beyond the Archipelago. 

 Does not occur. 



Family CEdicnemid^. 



(Edicnemus cedicnemus insularum. Eastern Canarian 



Tiiickknee. 

 G^dicnemus cedicnemus insularum Sassi, Orn. Jahrb. 1908, 

 p. 32 — Type locality : Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. 

 A Resident subspecies. 

 Hab. in Archipelago. 



Eastei'n Group : Fuerteventura, Lanzarote. 



Outer islets' Graciosa, AUegranza. 

 Range beyond the Archipelago. 



Does not occur. 



(Edicnemus * cedicnemus distinctus. Western Canarian 



Thickknee. 

 (Edicnemus redicnemvs distinctus Bannerman, Ibis, 1914, 

 ]). 277 — Type locality: Gran Canaria. 

 A Resident subspecies. 

 Hab. in Archipelago. 



Western Group : Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Pal ma, 

 Gomera, Hierro. 



* There is a skin of an (Edicnemus in the British Museum from 

 Tenerife which agrees with specimens from Egypt, and cannot be 

 assigned to either of the insular forms {cf. Ibis, 1914, p, 276, footnote). 



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