576 IMr. J. A. Buckuill on the 



j\[r. W. Pearse, who had had some experieiire with 

 Mr. Danford in Asia Minor, spent the winter of 1878-1) in 

 Cyprus, but his mission was, for various reasons, not very 

 successful and he died in the island. He did, however, 

 despatch a number of skins to Lord Lilford and was re- 

 sponsible for the discovery of the Saker, Pallid Harrier, 

 Long-eared Owl, Ked-backed Shrike, Fieldfare, Kedbreast, 

 Black Redstart, Great lleed-Warbler, Grey Wagtail, Spanish 

 Simrroyv, Sturnus poltaratzskii, "Rook, Great Spotted Cuckoo, 

 Coot, Little Stint, Sanderling, and Flamingo. 



In 1879 Herr August Midler published, in the 'Journal 

 fiir Ornithologie ' (vol. xxvii. pp. 385-393), a paper entitled 

 "Zur Ornithologie der Insel Cypern." This paper was the 

 result of the despatch from Cyprus in 1877 and 1878, to 

 Herr Wilhelm Schliiter of Halle on the Saale, of several 

 consignments of birds' skins and eggs amassed in the 

 neighbourhood of Larnaca by a collector whose name is not 

 mentioned and which is not known to me. The paper added 

 to and incorporated linger and Kotschy's list ; and, as the 

 results of Loid Lilford's and Pearse's work had not then 

 been published (they appeared first in- 1889), it is right that 

 credit should be given to Miiller for the first publication of 

 several important additions to the birds of the island, such as 

 the Lesser Kestrel, Red-kgged Falcon, Scops Owl, Sand- 

 !Martin, Red-rumped Swallovr, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Great 

 Titmouse, Blue Rock-Thrush, Isabelline, Black-eared, Black- 

 throated, Eastern Pied, and Arabian Chats, the Olivaceous 

 and Reed Warblers, the Black-headed "Wagtail, Cretzsch- 

 mar's Bunting, Emberiza pyrrhuloides, the Serin, Caccabis 

 chukar, the Little Bustard, Little Ringed Plover, Little Stint, 

 Glossy Ibis, Squacco and Bufi'-backed Herons, the Spoonbill, 

 Spotted Crake, Tufted Duck, and Mediterranean Herring- 

 Gull. He also replaces Unger and Kotschy's Garganey by 

 the Teal. 



All these species, with few exceptions, had already been 

 noticed by Lord Lilford or Pearse, but Miiller is, at any rate, 

 primarily responsible for the addition of the Blue Rock- 

 Thrush, the Black-eared and Arabian Chats, the Large- billed 



