57-J. Mr. J. A. Buclaiill on the. 



but the Linnet), Fringilla fluveola (without doubt, both from 

 the Greek name and description which he gives, the Black- 

 headed Bunting) ; the Pied and Spotted Flycatchers; the 

 Nightingale, Blackcap, Willow-Wren, Wheatear, Motacilla 

 ficedula and M. alba (perhaps the Pied and White Wagtails), 

 and also M. flava; the Coal Titmouse, Swallow^, House- 

 Martin, Swift, White-bellied Swift, Common Pratincole, and 

 Nightjar, He also found two species of Loxia — probably 

 the Crossbill — on the northern mountains. 



For seventy odd years after Dr. Sibthorp's visit no further 

 ornithological publication of any importance relative to the 

 island appeared, though several visitors refer to the abundance 

 of game. 



In 1863 a party of sportsmen paid a visit to Cyprus, their 

 account being published some years later in the 'Temple Bar 

 Magazine'; amongst their bag they included a few Bustards. 



In 1865 appeared at Vienna the important work ' Die 

 Insel Cypern/ by Drs. F. Unger and Th. Kotschy. A list 

 of birds forms part of Appendix IX., which purports to be 

 founded on Sibthorp's journals, coupled with the personal 

 observations of Dr. Kotschy ; it is, however, scarcely 

 more than a copy of Dr. Sibthorp's catalogue. The authors 

 mention — excluding domesticated birds — eighty-four species, 

 and their additions to Sibthorp's list include only the 

 Egyptian Vulture, Sitta syriaca, the Rosy Pastor, the Grey- 

 lag Goose, a Woodpecker (unidentified), the Great Shearwater, 

 the Marsh- and Curlew-Sandpipers, and the Great Snipe. It 

 is, perhaps, noteworthy that the occurrences of this Vulture, 

 the Nuthatch, and a Woodpecker have not been confirmed 

 by subsequent observers. The writers identify three of 

 Sibthorp's unknown Ha^ks as the Peregrine, Goshawk, and 

 Sparrow-Hawk, and, as far as can be seen, without good 

 reason, omit from the former's list the Redshank, Grey Plover, 

 Rock-Dove, Common Snipe, Manx Shearwater, and White 

 Wagtail, though possibly perhaps some of their alterations 

 may be due to their change of his scientific nomenclature. 

 In fact, though frequently referred to in later publications 

 us the basis of Cypriote ornithology, their list is little, if at 



