326 Mr. D. A. Bannerraan on the [Ibis, 



(December, January, and April), Abyssinia (December, 

 February, and March), Orange Free State (June !). 



Family Regulid^. 



Regulus ignicapillus madeirensis. Madeiran Fire-crest. 



Regulus madeirensis Harcourt, Sketch of Madeira, 1851, 

 p. 118 — Type locality : Madeira. 



The Madeiran Fire-crest is said by Cabrera (Catalog©, 

 p. 42) to occur accidentally in the woods of Tenerife. 

 He did not possess a specimen, and it is probable that the 

 bird has been wrongly identified, a particularly bright 

 coloured Gold-crest being mistaken for a Fire-crest. 

 I include it here, as Cabrera clearly shows that he did 

 not confuse it with the Tenerifian Gold-crest, Regulus 

 regulus teneriffa, for he includes this as " Regulus cristatus,^^ 

 and in addition enumerates Regulus satelles Koenig, which 

 is of course a synonym of R, r. teneriffce. Cabrera was 

 evidently not aware that Koenig had only renamed the 

 island bird, which Cabrera knew as R. cristatus. 



Range. The Madeiran Fire-crest is confined to the high- 

 lands of the island of Madeira. 



Family Laniid^. 



Malaconotns poliocephalus. West African Grey-headed 

 Bush-Shrike. 



Lanius poliocephalus Licht. Verzeichniss der Doubletten 

 des Zoologischen Museums, 1823, p. 45 — Type locality : 

 Senegambia. 



There is only one record from the Canary Islands. BoUe 

 (J. f. O. 1857, p. 275) says that he saw an example of 

 Laniarius icterus Cuv. [ = M. poliocephalus), which had been 

 shot in Tenerife, in Dr. Binna's collection at Orotava. 



Dr. Bolle certainly notes that the specimen of this rare 

 Shrike had been procured in Tenerife; but he evidently 

 did not shoot the bird himself, and it is much more likely 

 to have been an imported skin. 



Bolle was a careful ornithologist, and is certain to have 



