750 Mr. D. A. Baniierman on the [Ibis, 



Hub. in ArcMpelayo. 



Western Group : Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Palma, 



Gomera, llierro. 

 Eastern Group : Fuerteventurti, Lanzarote. 

 Outer islets : Graciosa. 



Obs. Many birds remain in the Archipelago throughout 

 the year find breed in numbers along the shores, especially 

 in the eastern islands. It is very difficult to estimate the 

 amount of migration which takes place, but being a wading 

 bird of very wide distribution and ranging south as far as 

 Cape Tovrn, the island birds are almost sure to have their 

 numbers augmented by birds of passage. It is particularly 

 unraerous on the shores of the eastern islands. 



Although most early writers mention the Kentish Plover 

 in their accounts of the ornis of the islands, none make any 

 allusion to migratory movements of this species, which 

 I believe to take place both in the s[)ring and in the 

 autumn. 



Range beyond the Archipelago. 



The typical form of the Kentish Plover breeds in Europe 

 from the southern coasts of England, south Sweden, Den- 

 mark, and lliigen, to the Mediterranean_, Azores, Canary 

 Islands, Madeira, and Cape Verde. Islands, in North Africa 

 as far as the salt swamps of the northern Sahara (Bledet- 

 ahmar, south of Touggourt), absent from north Russia but 

 throughout central Asia to Korea (Miss Jackson and 

 Hartert), ranging in Africa as far as the Cape in winter, 

 also to India and east to Borneo and Japan. 



Eudromias morinellus. Dotterel. 



Charadrius morinellus Linn. Syst. Nat. lOtii ed. 1758, 

 p. 150 — Type locality : Sweden. 



This is a Rare Visitor to the Archipelago which has not 

 been reported for many years. 



Meade-Waldo mentions it from personal observation 

 between 1887-91 as an occasional visitor in flocks to the 

 Laguna plains in Tenerife (Ibis, 1893, p. 203) : he says he 

 saw flocks of Dotterels one day close to the road just outside 



