328 Mr. D. A. Bannerman on the [Ibis, 



Acrocephalns aquaticus. Aquatic Warbler. 



Motacilla arjuatica Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. pt. 2, 1789, 

 p. 953 — Type locality : Carniola. 



This Warbler is said to have occurred iu the Canary 

 Islands. 



Webb and Bertlielot (Orn. Canarienne, p. 13) go so f;ir 

 as to give Gran Canaria as its habitat, l)nt without any 

 further local information. If it has ever inhabited this 

 island it would doubtless have frequented the Maspalornas 

 Charco or the pools of Arguineguin — no other places in 

 Gran Canaria would be suitable for its hal)itat (Ibis, 1912, 

 p. 564). 



Bolle quotes the above authorities (J. £. O. 1854, p. 453) 

 under Sylvia aquatica^ and the bird is also cited by Cabrera 

 (Catalogo, p. 43) as Calamodita sch(enob(Bnus Scop. 



Recently Von Thanner lias recorded (Orn. Jahrb. 1908, 

 p. 214) that he saw an Aquatic Warbler (" Calamoherpc 

 aquatica^') in some close grass on the 14th of March, 1905, 

 in Fuerteventura ; the bird was not obtained. 



Range. The Aquatic Warbler breeds in central and 

 southern Europe and in north-west Africa. It probablv 

 winters in tropical Africa, b\it this is not known for 

 certain. 



Family TurdidjE. 



(Enanthe isabellina. Isabelline Wheatear. 



Saxicola isabellina Cretzschmar, Atlas zu Riippeirs Keise, 

 Vogel, 1826, p. 52— Type locality: Nubia. 



This species has only once been recorded, by Meade- AValdo 

 (Ibis, 1889, [). 515), who notes that he saw a stuffed example 

 in Cabrera's collection in Tenerife. 



The record was omitted from Meade-Waldo's final list 

 (Ibis, 1893), and in answer to my query as to why the bird 

 was not then included, Mr. Meade-Waldo has kindly written 

 to me as follows, under date August 4, 1918: — ''At this 

 length of time it is rather hard to remember things exactly, 

 but if I noted Saxicola isabellina as being in Cabrera's col- 

 lection, no doubt but that it was there, but it may have been 



