1920.] Birds of the Canary Islands. 127 



Streptopelia turtiir arenicola. Noitli African Turtle 

 Dove, 



Turtur turtur arenicola Ilartert, Nov. Zool i. 1894-, p. 42 

 — Type locality : Fao (Persian Gulf). 



This North African Turtle Dove is a very Rare Visitor, 

 which has occurred on one occasion only in the Canary 

 Islands. A bird was shot by myself in company witli the 

 typical species in a field near Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, on 

 the 5th of May, 1913, and duly recorded in ' The Ibis,' 1914, 

 p. 274. 



The specimen has been twice examined by Dr. Ilartert 

 and once by Lord Rothschild, who consider it to be un- 

 questionably an exami)le of S. t. arenicola " which must 

 have been out of its ran^e — a straggler ordy.^' 



Range. Dr. Ilartert has kindly allowed rne to make use of 

 liis unpublished ]MSS. and he accepts the following as the 

 range of >S'. /. arenicola : — ^er^ia, Huchara and Turkest;in to 

 Yarkand, Kashgaria, Afghanistan, Tianseaspia, Palestine, 

 Lower Egy[)t and rest of north Africa from Tripolitania to 

 Morocco, south to the oases of t!ie north-western Sahara, as 

 far as Ghardaia and Onargia, probably also still nesting in 

 El-Golea. Migratory in north-west Africa but winter 

 quarters not yet known. 



Family Pticrocletid.e. 



Pterocles orientalis. Blaek-brca^tcd Sand-Grouse. 



[Pierocles arenarias (Pallas), auctorum ^.J 

 ^ Tetrao orienlalis Linn, in Hasselquist's Iter Palrestinnm, 

 1757, p. 278— Tyi)e locality : Anatolia (Western Asia Minor, 

 probably Jiear Smyrna). 



A Resident s] ecies. 

 Hah. in Arcliipelayo. 



/■Aistern Group : Fucrteventura. 

 Ohs. Occasionally used to be seen on the plains in the 



* For reasons why arcnarins of Piillas iiuist be discnrded in favour of 

 orieiitnlis Linn., see Ilartert, Nov. Zool. x.xiv. ll"]?. p. i'84. 



