1920.] Birds of the Canary Islands. \\7 



found foui'tecn of tliese birds in tlie small salt sea — Lago 

 Jaiiuvio — in Laiizarote, and I was told that they stayed 

 there nearly all the year but had never been found to breed 

 there. This diving-bird (' Taucher ') is a new record for 

 the Canary Islands.'"' 



I have purposely named this species biuomially. Polatzek 

 certainly records the typical species as the one which 

 occurred^ and was probably right in doing so; but it is 

 possible that it migiit have been P. /. capensis which he 

 noted and which he would not be able to distinguish at a 

 distance from P. f.fltwiaiilis. As he does not appear to have 

 obtained a specimen the identity of the race must remain 

 in doubt. I have treated it accordingly. 



Range. The typical European Little Grebe (F. f.fluvia- 

 tUis Tunst. — Type locality : Great Britain) breeds in central 

 and southern Europe and across central Asia to Japan. 

 Also in north Africa. 



The African Little Grebe [P. f. capensis Salvad. — Type 

 locality : South Africa) ranges throughout Africa except 

 the extreme north, also in south-western Asia and India. 



Family Rallid^. 

 Porzana porzana porzana. Spotted Crake. 

 Rallus porzana Linn. Syst. Nat. 12th ed. 1766, p. 262— 

 Type locality : France. 



The Spotted Crake is a Rare Visitor to the Canary Islands. 

 It has however been recorded on several occasions, and it is 

 reasonable to suppose that several have missed detection. 



It is recorded first by Webb and Berthelot as " very rare/' 

 and they note that the only specimen in their possessioji 

 was killed in March 1829 (Orn. Canarieune, p. 40). 



Cabrera shot two in the spring near Laguna^ but does not 

 give the year (Catalogo, p. 60). 



Meade-Waldo in his " List " says it is '' a not unfrequent 

 winter visitor" (Ibis, 1893, p. 201; and mentions Cabrera's 

 birds (Ibis, 1890, p. 430). 



I recorded one which was given to me in Lanzarote by 



