coo Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 



The Chiffchaff is to be seen in Nicosia throughout the winter; 

 a few of them frequented my garden in the cold weather of 

 1908 and 1909, from mid-October till the beginning of 

 April. The first few warm days brings them into song and 

 between the 14th of February and March the 25th, 1908, and 

 again between the 1st of March and April the 2nd, 1909, their 

 note w^as constantly to be heard. On March the Cth, 1908, and 

 on March the 12th, 1909, their numbers were largely increased 

 by, I presume, the spring migrants. After the first few days 

 of April their song is no longer heard and they all seem to 

 disappear about that time, my actual latest date of observa- 

 tion of the species being the 6ih of April. 



160. Hypolais pallida (Hempr. & Elir.). 



The Olivaceous or Pallid Warbler is a very common 

 summer visitor and is to be found all over the island. It 

 arrives about the end of April and sings vigorously till, at any 

 rate, the end of July. It leaves about the end of September. 

 It is, without doubt, by far the commonest Warbler of 

 Cyprus. It nests in May and early June — I have notes of 

 clutches from May the 8th to June the 10th — and lays some- 

 times three or, more often, four eggs. 



Lord Lilford first identified tlie species in the island. 

 Glaszner has taken specimens in September : we all found it 

 in abundance. 



165. AiiooN FAMiLiARis (Men^tr.). 



The only record from Cyprus, of which I am aware, of the 

 Grey-backed Warbler is that of a female obtained by Glaszner 

 on August the 28th, 1901, and sent by him to Madarasz. 



168. AcROCEPHALUs sTREPERUs (VieiU.). 



Lord Lilford met with the Reed-Warbler on his visit and 

 regarded it as not very abundant ; he took specimens towards 

 the end of April in the Karpas district ; Pearse met with it 

 in October. 



Miiller mentions the receipt of two clutches, each of three 

 eggs, taken on May the 22nd. Glaszner obtained one bird near 

 Laruaca on August the 26th, 1901. None of us have yet come 



