26 Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 



" inspired with a fruitless passion for the Cuckoo." It does 

 not seem to be mentioned in Guillemard's * Ibis ' papers, but 

 apparently he obtained specimens. Glaszner sent one, taken 

 on the 19th of August, 1901, to Madarasz, which the latter 

 describes as being remarkably pale in colour, and approaching 

 the form C. unwini Hume; he was in some doubt whether to 

 record it under this name or that of C. meridionalis Hart. 

 Glaszner shewed me another female taken by him on the 

 14th of September 1906. Mr. Barrett, the Superintendent 

 of the Government Farm at Athalassa, near Nicosia — to 

 whom Horsbrugh and I are much indebted for his constant 

 assistance — brought me a live female on the 16th of October, 

 1908, and informed me that there were several to be then 

 observed on his farm. We first noticed them in 1909 on the 

 29th of March, when Horsbrugh saw several at Acheritou 

 Reservoir ; at Athalassa I shot a male on the 3rd of May, 

 and Horsbrugh saw others in the Papho district, and on the 

 Troodos foot-hills up to the 13th of that month. The last 

 that I observed was just outside my garden in Nicosia on the 

 13th of May, on the evening of which I also heard its note. 



Picus sp. inc. 



Unger and Kotschy added to Sibthorp's list " Picus sp. 

 rcpaovyo<; " ! but no one has since met with any species of 

 Woodpecker in the island, and it is difficult to understand 

 to what they refer. Possibly they may have heard of the 

 presence of a tree-climbing bird — the local Tree-creeper — 

 which they thought was probably of this genus. Dendro- 

 copus syriacus (Hempr. & Ehr.) would be perhaps more likely 

 to occur in Cyprus than any other Woodpecker. 



656. Iynx torquilla (Linn.). 



Lord Lilford recognised the cry of the Wryneck more 

 than once near Limassol in May 1875, but the only spe- 

 cimen which he or his collectors obtained was a female 

 shot by Guillemard near Limassol on March 24th, 1887, 

 although it is not mentioned at all in the latter's articles in 

 this Journal, and on that account, no doubt, Lord Lilford 

 expressed the opinion that the species was somewhat rare in 



