120 Mr. "D. A. Bannerman on the [Ibis, 



There are very few records to help decide this question, 

 but this is more likely to be due to lack of observers than 

 to the nou-arrival of the bird itself. 



Meade- Waldo considered it to be " a regular migrant to 

 Tenerife, but decidedly rare" (Ibis, 1889, p. 515), noting 

 that a few appeared in the autumn and spring, being most 

 frequent at Laguna (Ibis, 1893, p. 202). . 



Cabrera caught four in Tenerife, believing it to be an 

 " accidental migrant '' (Catalogo, p. GO). 



Polatzek termed the bird an " occasional passer " (Orn. 

 Jahrb. 1909, p. 129). 



I identified a bird as belonging to this species in 1913 in 

 the collection of Don Gonzalez in Arrecife, Lanzarote, said 

 to have been shot locally (Ibis, 1914', p. 63). 



Range. The Corn Crake breeds in Europe and western 

 Asia and in winter visits Africa ranging to the Cape. It is 

 said to breed also in the Azores, where it is reported to be 

 fairly common. 



Galiinula chloropus. Waterhen, 



An Occasional Visitor. 



Entire lack of any specimens for comparison prevents my 

 determining whether the Moorhen of the Canary Islands is 

 the large typical European form (G. chloropus chluropus), or 

 whether it is the smaller African subspecies (G. chloropus 

 brachyptera). 1 am inclined to believe the former is the 

 race which occurs in the Archipelago, but until a bird is 

 obtained for examination it must remain an open question. 

 I have therefore employed binomial nomenclature for this 

 bird. 



The status of the AVaterhen in the islands is not by any 

 means easy to decide. I include it in this List as an 

 Occasional Visitor, sometimes numerous in winter, which 

 undoubtedly has been known to breed, at any rate in Gran 

 Canaria. It may eventually have to be classed as a very 

 rare Partial Resident, but unlike other Partial Residents its 

 numbers are not augmented at regular seasons by fresh 

 arrivals from Africa. It is also unknown whether the birds 



