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eight on the 20th and twelve on the 22 nd of that month, 

 near Papho, and from the latter flock Mr. Baxendale obtained 

 a fine female. Although locusts have been practically 

 exterminated during the British occupation of the island, 

 ' precautionary measures are annually taken to prevent their 

 re-establishment, by payments, during the early summer 

 months, on a liberal scale, for all young locusts brought in 

 by the peasants, who collect them in nets whilst they are in 

 what we should call in South Africa the "voetganger" 

 stage, and it is curious to notice that one of the flocks of 

 the birds seen this year were haunting a locality where the 

 destruction of these locusts was being proceeded with on a 

 large scale. Although I showed the specimen obtained to 

 many old Cypriote sportsmen, none of them had ever seen 

 the bird before. 



585. Garrulus glandarius (Linn.). 



Garrulus glaszneri Madarasz. 



Sibthorp discovered the Jay on Troodos ''by its hoarse 

 screams — hopping about the branches of the Pinus pinea " 

 on April 30th, 1787. It was re-discovered by Guillemard in 

 the same range in 1887, and the two specimens which he then 

 obtained, together with others which he brought back on 

 his second visit, were thought to present some slight pecu- 

 liarities of plumage, and were submitted by Lord Lilford 

 to Seebohm. Seebohm stated of them, " The Cyprian Jay is 

 one of the local races of the Stripe-headed Jay which ranges 

 from Britain to Japan. It is scarcely distinguishable from 

 the East-Russian variety G. severzowii Bogdanow, and like 

 that race is one of the intermediate forms between G. brandii 

 Eversm. and G. glandarius." 



Glaszner sent a good series to Madarasz, Avho definitely 

 separated the bird in 1902 under the name given above. 

 Glaszner's Jay is really a fairly common resident in Cyprus, 

 but is restricted to the forests of the southern range, and 

 even there mainly to elevations above 3000 feet. I found 

 it plentiful in 1907 and 1908 all the summer in the area 

 round the hill-station on Troodos. Horsbrugh obtained 



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