222 Mr. F. R. S, Baxeiidale on the 



Falco cherrug J. E. Gray. 



I shot a male Saker while Snipe-shooting on Avgashida 

 Marsh on the 6th of December, 1913. This is the second 

 specimen that I have obtained. 



Falco peregrinus Tunstall. 



I obtained a fine Peregrine Falcon in adult plumage on 

 the 10th of May near Famagusta. It has never been proved 

 that this Falcon nests on the island, but I should say that 

 this is perhaps evidence in favour of its breeding locally. 



Falco hiarmicus feldeggi Schlegel. 



On the 1st of February last I shot from my carriage a 

 fine female Lanner about two-and-a-half miles from Fama- 

 gusta. It is the first record of this Falcon occurring in 

 Cyprus. 



Falco subhuteo Linn. 



Several of those little Falcons have been obtained in the 

 past few years, but it was not until 1913 that it was ascer- 

 tained that they nested locally. On the 25th of July of 

 that year a villager found a clutch of four eggs in a deserted 

 Hooded Crow's nest in the Larnaca District. Mr. Horsbrugh, 

 to whom the eggs were brought, describes them as less 

 brilliantly coloured than typical Kestrel's. He shot a hen- 

 bird on the 30th of June, 1913, and found an egg nearly 

 developed in the oviduct. 



Egretta alba (Linn.). {Ardea alba.) 



I noticed a single Great White Heron on the 19th 

 and again on the 20th of April last near Apostol Andrea 

 Monastery, when on my way to and on ray return from the 

 Klides Islands. Mr. E. H. D. NicoUs, our Director of 

 Public Works, informs me that he saw a pair in the Limassol 

 District during the spring. These birds are evidently very 

 rare visitors, while the Little Egret can be seen, generally 

 in pairs, every spring. 



Platalea leucorodia Linn. 



For the past three years in the spring I have seen Spoon- 

 bills at the freshwater lake. On the 12th of December, 



