734 Mr. D. A. Bannerman on the [Ibis 



Range. The Little Stint breeds in the Arctic regions of 

 Europe and [Siberia, and in winter visits South Africa, 

 Arabia, India, and Ceylon. 



Tringa alpina alpina. Dunlin. 



Tringa alpina Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 149 — 

 Tj^pe locality : Lapland. 



The Dunlin is a Bird of Passage usually observed in the 

 Canary Islands between Febi nary and June. 



The notes which Webb and Berthelot published coucerninfi; 

 T. variabilis (which can only be the Dunlin) must certainly 

 refer to another species, probably to the Kentish Plover, 

 for these authors say, "... It appears sedentaiy, we are 

 certain that it nests there because one of us found in July 

 near Arrecife many very young specimens hardly covered 

 with feathers" (Orn. Canarienne, p. 38). 



The Dunlin is in reality a migrant to the islands, some- 

 times being numerous. 



Meade-Waldo found them in large flocks on 25 April 

 and following days (1890) in Tenerife, and on the 7th of 

 April noted them in Graciosa (MS. diaries). He considered 

 them to be "occasionally numerous" on migration, rarer in 

 the eastern islands (Ibis, 1893, p. 204) . Polatzek also 

 records them from the eastern islands, where they were 

 often obtained on passage (Orn. Jahrb. 1909, p. 131). I 

 have seen them and obtained specimens at Maspalomas in 

 Gran Canaria as early as the 23rd of February (Ibis, 1912, 

 p. 581), and again in the eastern group in May and June 

 (Ibis, 1914, pp. 46, 57, 71, 285), i.e., sparingly on the reefs 

 at Toston in Fuerteventura (May 6-10), by the Lago Janurio 

 in Lanzarote (^lay 19-22), and in the island of Graciosa 

 (May 27 to June 7). Wherever met with, they were 

 alwavs in very small nutubers. One example had assumed 

 breeding-plumage and had the testes fairly large. Dunlins 

 do not frequent any particular part of the coast for long, 

 and I do not think any remain in the island during the 

 summer. 



Range. The Dunlin breeds in northern Europe and is 



