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115. Sylvia hortensis Bechst. 



The Garden-Warbler is another visitor on spring anil 

 autumn migration. Lord Lilford and his collectors apparently 

 did not obtain specimens, but the former records having 

 seen and heard it in May near Papho. Guillemard mentions 

 meeting with it at Kykko Monastery at the end of May 1887 

 " pouring out a torrent of song," and in June, on the summit 

 of Troodos ; Glaszner sent a male to Madanisz taken at 

 Larnaca on September the 14th, 1901. Personally we have 

 not yet identified with certainty this species, although I have 

 no doubt that it is our own fault that we have not done so. 



117. Sylvia coNSPiciLLATA Harm. 



The Spectacled Warbler is in the main a visitor on 

 migration. It arrives in the middle of March and has 

 passed by the end of April. It returns in autumn, and 

 some undoubtedly stay in the island throughout the winter. 



It was noticed by Lord Lilford only near Trikomo, in the 

 Famagusta district ; but Guillemard found it tolerably 

 plentiful in early March on the flats between Larnaca and 

 Famagusta, and also near Limassol, and his spring specimens 

 include one taken on April the 7th; he also saw a few pairs 

 later in that month. Glaszner sent a female to Madarasz, 

 taken near Larnaca in March. 



119. Sylvia subalpina Bonelli. 



The only record of the Subalpine Warbler with which I 

 am acquainted is that of a single specimen shot on March the 

 7th, 1888, by Guillemard, near Ayia Napa, at the south- 

 eastern extremity of the island. 



121. Sylvia melanocephala (Gmel.). 



The Sardinian Warbler is probably a visitor on migration, 

 though no doubt some winter in the island. Lord Lilford 

 considered it uncommon and very local, and he only noticed 

 it in the Karpas ; Guillemard found a few, but secured two 

 only, near Limassol, in March; Glaszner sent several to 

 Madarasz, collected in various localities in September, 

 October, November, and February, and has shown me a 

 specimen taken on March the 24th, 1905. 



