740 Mr. D. A. Bannermcau on the [Iliis, 



Range. Tlie Green Sandpiper l)reeds in northern Europe 

 and Asia, and in winter extends to South Africa and India, 

 ranging eastward to Japan. 



Totanus glareola. Wood-Sandpiper. 



Tr'mga glareola Linn. Syst. Nat, 10th ed. 1758, p. 149 — 

 Type locality : Sweden. 



An Occasional Visitor during migration. 



The Wood-Sandpiper is said by Meade-Waldo to occur 

 more frequently than the Green Sandpiper (Ibis, 1893, 

 p. 205). His observations doubtless refer to Tenerife, 



Polatzek records it (Orn. Jahrb. 1909, p. 131) from both 

 Fuerteventura and Lanzarote (Arrecife) ; while von 

 Thunner records two birds from Fuerteventura on the 23rd 

 of March, 1904 (Orn. Jahrb. 1905, p. 65). 



Range. The Wood-Sandpiper breeds in northern Europe 

 and Asia, wintering in Africa southward to tlie Cape, in 

 the Mediterranean countries, and eastward to Japan and 

 Australia. 



Limosa limosa limosa. Black-tailed Godwit. 



Scolopax limosa Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 147 — 

 Type locality : Sweden. 



The Black-tailed Godwit is a somewliat irregular Winter 

 Visitor, rarely met with in any of the islands. 



it is first mentioned from Tenerife in 1810 by Ledru, and 

 most students of Canarian ornithology have observed it in 

 the winter months. 



Webb and Berthelot record it from Tenerife in January, 

 where thev say a specimen was obtained on the south coast 

 near Montana Reja (Orn. Canarienne, p. 38). 



Cabrera found it "frequent in certain winters in the 

 neighbourhood of Laguna"' (Catalo;^o, p. 57); and Meade- 

 Waldo records seeing it occasionally in flocks in the same 

 locality (Ibis, 1893, p. 205). 



In February 1911 1 saw what I took to be a Black- tailed 

 Godwit on the beach of Maspalomas in Gran Cauaria (Ibis, 

 1912, p. 582). 



