1920.] Birds of the Canary Islands. 351 



liaving- been cited by Godmau as shot in the island of 

 Tenerife. He says he had a s])ecimen in liis collection 

 killed in November at Laguna. 



Godman does not mention this Swallow in his paper 

 (This, 1872). 



Ilartert (Nov. Zool. 1901, p. 307) went throngh Cabrera's 

 collection in Tenerife in 1901 and could not find any skin 

 of this species ; he is convinced that Cabrera wrongly 

 identified the bird he mentions. 



Piciis viridis. Green Woodpecker. 



The Green Woodpecker is said by Cabrera (Catalogo, 

 1893, p. 35) to have been first mentioned in ^'iera's work 

 (Diccionario de Historia Natural de las Islas Canarias, 

 1866). The description, however, on p. 176 under Peto 

 [Picus) does not apply to the Green Woodpecker, but to 

 the Pied, which is resident in Tenerife and Gran Canaria at 

 the present day. Next it is included in Serra's ' Ornitho- 

 logia Canaria' (according to Cabrera), but this work I have 

 not seen. 



Cabrera himself includes it as an accidental visitor on the 

 authority of the above, noting that it is also included in 

 Berthelot's book. This is not the case, however. Berthelot 

 did not include the species in his 'Ornithologie Canaiienne.' 

 Considerable confusion seems to have taken place over this 

 species. 



Glaucidium siju. Cuban Owlet. 



As shown by Tristram and Meade-Waldo, Koenig (J. f. O. 

 1890, p. 336) was badly hoaxed over this species {Glaucidiutn 

 s'lju (D'Orb.)) by Ramon Gomez, the Orotava chemist and 

 bird-stuffei-. The bird was imj)orted from Cuba ! It appears 

 in most authors' lists, l)ut always (luckily) with the true 

 explanation of its occurrence in the Canary Islands. 

 Cy. Tristram and Meade-Waldo (Ibis. 1891, p. 616 ; 1892, 

 p. 182 ; 1893, p. 186) ; Cabrera (Catalogo, 1893; p. 34) ; 

 Hartert (Nov. Zool. 1901, p. 311) ; Polatzek fOrn. Jalub. 

 1909, p. 119), etc. 



