1920.] Birds of the Canary Islands. 123 



first recording it in 1857 {I.e. p. 340) from the Binna 

 collection. Savile Reid saw a bird alive in February wliicli 

 had been captured near Tacaronte (Ibis, 1888, p. 77) 



Meade- Waldo believed it to be a regular winter visitor 

 to all the islands, and records having seen several " walking 

 about on the roofs of the houses at Orotava" (Ibis, 1893, 

 p. 20.2). On rare occasions, as Cabrera says, it may be 

 considered quite abundant in Tenerife. He had several 

 skins in his collection (Catj'ilogo, p. 61). 



The Coot probably visits most of the other islands in the 

 Canary grouj), but we only find it recorded from Hierro, 

 Fuerteventura^ and Lanzarote. The only record from llierro 

 is supplied by Meade-Waldo, who when he visited the island 

 in November 1889 was shown a live Coot which had been 

 caught a few days previously (Ibis, 1890, p. 431). In 

 Fuerteventura Bolle notes that it comes to the pools formed 

 in the rainy season (J. f. O. 1857, p. 340), and while in 

 Lanzarote in 1913 I myself saw a Coot wliich had recently 

 been shot in the island, in the Gonzalez collection (Ibis, 

 1914, p. 63). 



Ranye. The Coot, which breeds throughout Europe, ex- 

 tending eastwards to China and Japan, visits north Africa 

 in large numbers in winter, a few travelling as far south as 

 the Canary Archipelago. I am not aware that any have 

 been taken south of these islands. According to Ogilvie- 

 Grant the Coot breeds in the Azores, and it is probable that 

 these birds are non-migratory. Whether, on rare occasions, 

 this takes place in the Canary"- Islands has yet to be proved. 



Family Columbid^. 

 Columba junoniae *. Canarian Laurel Pigeon, 

 (Columba laurivora auctorum.) 



Colamba jununice Hartert, Nov. Zool. xxiii. 1916, j). 86 — 

 Type locality : Palma, Western Canary group. 



* I agree with Hartert that Webb and Berthelot (Orn. Cauarieune, 

 1841, p. 26) renamed the Madeiran Laurel Pigeon C. laurivora and that 

 this must therefore become a synonym of C. trocaz and can no longer be 

 used for the Canarian Pijreon. 



