Ornithology of Cyprus, 583 



utilize. There is mueh still to be done in the ornitholo<;y 

 of the island which only increased interest and careful 

 observation can accomplish. The Chats and Warblers, 

 the Finches and Hawks, and their status in the island are 

 amongst the more obvious tasks for the students of the 

 Cyprus Natural History Society, founded last year, to 

 accomplish. Subjoined is the Cypriote list brought up to 

 date so far as I have been able to do so. For the sake of 

 uniformity, the nomenclature adopted is, so far as is possible, 

 that used by Dresser in his ' Manual of Palaearctic Birds,' 

 but the B. O. U. nomenclature is added, so far as it applies, 

 in cases in which Dresser's is not the same. 



1 *. TuRDUs viscivoRUs Linn. 



The Mistletoe-Thrush is apparently a winter visitor of 

 considerable rarity. Dr. Guillemard included it in his list 

 supplied to Lord Lilford, and Glaszner obtained a female 

 near Larnaca. Three were noticed by Mr. R. G. Jebb, an 

 official who was stationed for some time at the freshwater 

 reservoirs in the Famagusta district, at that place on 

 Oct. 28th, 1908, and from him and others I learn that the 

 bird seems to occur every winter. 



2. TuRDus Musicus Linn. 



The Song-Thrush is a very common winter visitor. It 

 arrives about the beginning of November, and though, no 

 doubt, many individuals use the island only as a station on 

 their journey south, a large number remain through the 

 winter. They have all left again by the end of March, 

 though the northern migration commences as early in the 

 year as the middle or towards the end of January. It has 

 been thought that this species may occasionally nest in the 

 mountains, but though I have fairly satisfactory notes of 

 its having been seen in April and even in the summer 

 months on the TroOdos range, I have not, as yet, authentic 

 evidence of its breeding. It is not unfrequently shot by the 

 Cypriote sportsmen, and sold in the bazaars for eating 

 purposes for a piastre or two. 



* The numbers prefixed to the name of each species are those of 

 Dresser's ' Manual.' 



