Ornithologij of Cyprus. 597 



capture is cfTected in various parts of the island during tlie 

 autumn migration, but chiefly in the district lying between 

 Larnaca and Faraagusta. The birds are caught with bird- 

 lime, and some idea of their abundance may be gathered from 

 the fact that a single peasant will sometimes take as many as 

 ten or twelve dozen during the day. They are either sold 

 fresh, unplucked, at about twenty for a shilling, and are eaten 

 as one would eat Larks, or preserved, undrawn, iu the wine of 

 the country and served as a savoury or light entree, and are 

 certainly in either case extremely palatable. 



123. Sylvia orphea Temm. 



Lord Lilford obtained a male Orphean Warbler near 

 Limassol on April the 15tn, 1875. It does not seem to have 

 been met with by Guillemard ; but Glaszner sent six to 

 Madarasz, taken near Larnaca in March, April, and August. 

 I have never seen a specimen from Cyprus, but should imagine 

 that those found iu the island ought to belong to the Eastern 

 form, S. jerdoni (Blyth). It is no doubt frequently confused 

 with the Blackcap, 



125. Sylvia rueppelli Temm. 



RlippelFs Warbler appears to be mainly a spring and 

 autumn migrant and not very uncommon. It was not 

 n.et with by Lord Lilford, but Guillemard obtained speci- 

 mens near tlie Limassol salt-lakes in March 1887. Glaszner 

 sent a considerable number to Madarasz collected iu 

 various localities iu March, but captured one in October. 

 Mr. Baxendale sent me a specimen shot near Papho on 

 the 1st of April, 1909, where he had observed it in some 

 numbers, and I have seen others taken by Glaszner on the 

 6th of April and the 12th of May. I should think that 

 there can be little doubt that it nests in the island, 



126. Sylvia melanothorax Tristram. 



The Palestine Warbler was only described by Tristram 

 two or three years before Lord Lilford, unaware of tliat 

 fact, found the species fairly common in Cyprus. Lord 

 Lilford first noticed it at the north-east corner of the island 



