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



Woodpecker is ever discovered in Gomera that it will prove 

 to be any race of the Lesser Spotted. It is certainly very 

 remarkable that the islands of Palma and Gomera have no 

 Woodpecker living upon them when two races of D. major 

 are found in Teuerife and Gran Canaria respectively. 



Range. The typical Lesser Spotted Woodpecker inhabits 

 northern Europe. Numerous races are recognised in Europe, 

 Asia, and northern Africa (Algeria and Tunisia). D, minor 

 is said once to have inhabited the Azores, where it is now 

 apparently extinct. 



Family CaprimulgiDyE. 



Caprimulgus europaeus. Nightjar. 



The Nightjar is recorded by several observers on somewhat 

 fragmentary evidence. It is uncertain which form has 

 occurred, if any, in the Canaries. 



Busto includes the " Caprimulgus" in his list (Topografia 

 medica, p. 104). 



Cabrera (Catalogo, p. 36) notes that he saw one at 

 Tejina (Tenerife), but the bird does not appear to have 

 been obtained. 



Polatzek was told in Fuerteventura that some of these 

 birds were occasionally seen by day in holes in the rocks, 

 resting on their way through the islands (Orn. Jahrb. 1909, 

 p. 119). No s[)ecimens have ever been obtained, and local 

 evidence in the Canaries is most unreliable. 



Range. Typical C. europaus eurupams Linn. (Syst. Nat. 

 10th ed. 1758, p. 193 — Type locality : Sweden) breeds in 

 Europe and winters in Africa ranging to the Cape. It passes 

 down the west coast of Africa and has occurred in Cameroon. 



A small race, C. e. meridionalis Hartert (Ibis, 1896, 

 p. 370), occurs in Spain, and in some of the islands and 

 countries bordering the Mediterranean as well as in north- 

 west Africa. 



Caprimulgus ruficollis. Red-necked Nightjar. 

 The evidence of this species occurring in the Canary 

 Islands is not very satisfactory. 



It is mentioned by Webb & Berthelot, who say (Orn. 



