1920.] Birds oj the Canary Islands. 99 



Canary Islands are far beyond the normal limits frequented 

 by this species. 



Banye. The Common Guillemot breeds in Europe as far 

 south as the Berlenga Islands oft* Portugal. It also occurs 

 on both coasts of north America. In winter the European 

 birds wander south to about 30° N. in the Atlantic^ occa- 

 sionally entering the Mediterranean, The bird which 

 occurred in the Canary Islands must have strayed miles 

 farther south than any have done for a very long time. 



Fratercula arctica arctica. Puffin. 

 • Alca arctica Linn, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 130 — 

 Type locality : Sweden. 



The Puffin is a Rare Visitor. It has been recorded on 

 three or four occasions. 



Meade- Waldo saw a young Puffin which had been obtained 

 at Orotava (Ibis, 1893, p. 207). 



Hartert saw specimens in both Cabrera^s and Ramon 

 Gomez's collection in Tenerife in 1901 (Nov. Zool. 1901, 

 p. 306, lower footnote) ; the former may have been the 

 young bird which Meade-Waldo mentions {supra), as most 

 of the ''rarities'' occurring in Tenerife found their way into 

 Cabrera's possession. 



Cabrera does not, however, include the species himself 

 in his Catalogue, so the bird which Hartert saw may have 

 been obtained between 1893 and 1901, after Cabrera's list 

 was published. 



Lastly, I examined a stuffed example of this species in the 

 Gonzalez collection in Lanzarote which had been obtained 

 near Arrecife (Ibis, 1914, p. 63). 



Range. The Puffin breeds in the north Atlantic as far 

 south as the Berlenga Islands off Portugal, and in winter 

 visits the western Mediterranean and in the Atlantic 

 ranges as far south as the Azores, very rarely reaching the 

 Canaries. 



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