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It lias also been recorded from the eastern group by 

 Polatzek (Orn. Jahrb. 1909, p. 130), who found it numerous 

 during some winters and procured a specimen at Gran 

 Tarajal in Fuerteventura. He also records that he often 

 saw it ill Lanzarote, where T have seen a stuffed example at 

 Arrecife in 1913 (Ibis, 1914., p. 03). 



Von Thanner shot a female on the 23rd of February, 

 1910, in Fuerteventura (Orn. Jahrb. 1910, p. 229). 



Range. The Black-tailed Godwit breeds in northern and 

 central Europe and in winter wanders to the Mediterranean 

 basin, Al)yssiuia, the Azores and Madeira, and in the east 

 to India and Ceylon. 



Limosa lapponica lapponica. Bar-tailed Godwit. 



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

 — Type locality : Lapland. 



The Bar-tailed Godwit is an Occasional Visitor to the 

 Canary Islands. 



It is recorded from Tenerife and Gran Canaria by Webb 

 and Berthelot (Orn. Canarieune, p. 38). Cabrera obtained 

 it on two occasions in the winter, presumably at Tenerife 

 (Catalogo, p. 58) ; and Meade-Waldo notes that he only 

 met with this species once (Ibis, 1893, p. 205). 



In the eastern group Polatzek shot one in Fuerteventura 

 and saw this Godwit several times at Arrecife (Orn. Jahrb. 

 1909, p. 130), where I examined one in the Gonzalez local 

 collection in Lanzarote (Ibis, 1914, p. 63). Unlike many 

 of the Waders which I have termed " Occasional Visitors," 

 I do not think the Bar-tailed Godwit will ever piove to 

 be a regular Bird of Passage through the Canary Islands. 



Range. The Bar-tailed Godwit In-eeds in northern Europe 

 and Asia, and in winter visits the Mediterranean basin and 

 Africa, ranging south to Senegambia on the west coast. In 

 the east it extends to the mouth of the Indus. 



Numenius arqiiata arquata. Curlew. 



Scolopax arquata Linn. Syst. Nat. lOth ed. 1758, p. 145 

 — Type locality : Sweden. 



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