Ornitholoyy ofCijprus. 605 



287. CliRTHIA FAMILIARIS Lillll. 



Certhia familiaris dorothea Hartert. 



The presence of a Tree-creeper in Cyprus seems to have 

 been first observed by Guillemard, who found it tolerably 

 abundant on the heights of Troodos on both his visits (1887 

 and 1888). Miss Dorothy Bate, who, during her stay in 

 1901 and 1902, took a series of specimens in the same 

 locality, drew attention to their similarity to the subspecies 

 from Asia Minor, C. familiaris harterti Hellm., and I believe 

 that Dr. Hartert has designated the Cypriote form by the 

 trinomial given above. Glaszner sent over forty specimens 

 to Madarasz alone. It would be out of place here to enter 

 into any lengthy account of the characteristics which are 

 stated to distinguish the Cypriote form, as they have been 

 dealt with in considerable detail elsewhere by Miss Bate and 

 Madarasz, The bird is a resident, but is restricted to the 

 coniferous forests of the southern mountains and, so far as 

 I am aware, to the higher altitudes. It is not very common, 

 but I saw a few in the neighbourhood of the Troodos hill- 

 station in the summers of 1908 and 1909. Horsbrugh 

 observed it in fair numbers in his journey through the range 

 in May and June ; he obtained specimens on the summit 

 and found five fledgings already out of the nest on the 3rd 

 of the latter month, but observed a pair still building in the 

 roof of a hut in another locality on the following day. 



I have not yet procured the eggs. 



290. Troglodytes parvulus Koch. 



Anorthura Cypriotes Bate, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 51. 



Troglodytes cypriotis Bate, Ibis, 1903, p. 575. 



Guillemard, who did not mention the Wren in his articles^ 

 was, nevertheless, the first to record this species in Cyprus, 

 bringing back two examples from the Troodos mountains. 

 Miss Bate, who obtained a few in the same locality during 

 her visit, described it as a new species, and gave an accurate 

 account of its habits and distribution. Madarasz sent three 

 to Glaszner, also collected in the same neighbourhood. The 

 Wren is a resident, but is confined to the forests of the 



