744 Mr. D. A. Baimerman on the [Ibis, 



Meade- Waldo wrote in 1893, " A regular and numerous 

 visitor, especially so in the eastern islands. A few may be 

 seen all the year round. Many arrive in August, and they 

 may be seen in pairs at the beginning of June^' (Ibis, 

 1893, p. 205). He noted them on 23 October in Tenerife, 

 and paired on 30 March and G April in Fuerteventura 

 (MS. diaries). 



Cabrera in the same year said, "it is found all the year 

 on the shore " (Catalogo, p. 57). 



Polatzek, in Orn. Jalirl). 1909, p. 21 (under N. carjuaia), 

 remarks a propos of von Thanner seeing an egg-shell, partly 

 broken, sup[)osed to belong to the Curlew (A'^. a. arquata), 

 and to have been taken in Fuerteventura : " I had before 

 conjectured that N. phceojms was a breeding bird in the 

 Canary Islands." In a later part of the same paper Polatzek 

 wrote: ''Seen nearly all the year in suitable places, but up 

 till now not authenticated as a breeding bird. I saw many 

 in winter in Lanzarote, but they vanished after the middle 

 of March" (Orn. Jahrb. 1909, p. 130). 



Von Thanner in 1913 tiiought he had established the 

 Whimbrel as a breeding bird, but his evidence is insufiicient 

 [vide supra). 



My own field notes concerning this species are as 

 follows : — 



1911, 1912. Gran Cauiiria. Saw tlie ^^'llinlbl•el in February near 

 Maspalonias, on tlie rocky parts of this coast. A bird 

 was shot on Las Pahnas beach on 12 June, 1911, and 

 a pair seen in 1912 on 1 .lune. They are often to be 

 seen on the reef in Contital Bay (Ibis, 1912, p. 584). 



1913. Eastern Group. Found the Whimbrel very plentiful in 



JNlav and .lune, particularly numerous on the reefs 

 at Toston (Fuerteventura) and on the N.W. coast of 

 Graciosa (Ibis, 1914, p. 280). 



I have a note that on 20 August, 1908, in lat. 31° 13' N., 

 long. 14° 25' W., at sea, about 110 miles north of 

 the Canary Islands, a Whimbrel flew twice round the 

 SS. Goorkha, upon which I was returning from the Ca[)e 

 (MS. diaries). 



