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classed as a nii<»rant, and must be included with the 

 Resident Birds only. 



Curionslv enousrh its eos,s have never been found in the 

 Canaries, and the bird has never been recorded from any- 

 where else. Meade-Waldo shot two birds in Graciosa which 

 he considered were a breeding ])air (This, 1890, p. 437), and 

 a female which he shot in Fnerteventura contained well- 

 developed eggs (Ibis, 1889, p. 13). 



Von Thanner believes that the bird is migratory, and 

 was told by the fishermen that it came to the islands in 

 June (Orn. Jahrb. 1908, p. 213, and 1913, p. 192). 



It is certainly a remarkably rare bird, and if it is confined 

 to the Canary Archipelago will not be long before it is 

 entirely extinct. It must be remembered, however, that the 

 opposite coast-line of Africa is quite unknown from an 

 ornithological point of view; and it may possibly be a 

 genuine migrant (a Summer Visitor) after all. As, how- 

 ever, there is up till now absolutely no direct evidence that 

 migration takes place, save between the islands of the 

 Eastern Group, I prefer to treat it as a purely Resilient 

 Bird and not even as a Partial Resident. I have only once 

 seen it myself (Ibis, 1911, pp. 279-282). 



Range beyond the Archipelago. 



Unknown, possibly does not occur. 



Tringa minuta minuta. Little Stint. 



Tringa minuta Leisler, Nachtiage zu Bechst. Naturg. 

 Deutschl. 1812, p. 74 — Type locality : near Hanau, Ger- 

 many. 



An Occasional Visitor. 



The Little Stint is one of the rarest of the Waders which 

 occasionally visit the islands on migration. It cannot be 

 reckoned a Regular Bird of Passage. 



Meade-Waldo notes that it is occasionally met with on 

 migration (Ibis, 1893, p. 205). His observations were 

 doubtless made in Tenerife; while Polatzek noted it only 

 during the autumn migration (Orn. Jalirb. 1909, p. 131), 

 probably in the eastern islands. 



